HBO documentary 'Simple As Water' from Academy Award-winning director Megan Mylan will screen Tuesday in Dallas and Thursday in Fort Worth.
Abed is now a student at Houston Community College and Omar works in quality assurance for Comcast and helps other refugees find tech jobs, according to a release.
The filmmakers are screening the documentary to support earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria and a “culture of welcome for refugees,” according to a release. Texas is the first stop on a national tour for which Dallas was selected because of Mylan’s ties to the area and the city’s robust commitment to welcoming refugees, the release stated.
“Megan Mylan’s latest documentary feature takes a humble idea — telling intimate and humanizing stories of Syrian families affected by their home country’s civil war — and achieves it on a nakedly ambitious scale,” critic Claire Shaffer ofwas shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for Emmy, PGA and Peabody awards. Mylan has been recognized with an Independent Spirit Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Peabody and several Emmy nominations.
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