‘For Sama’ Directors Waad Al-Kateab And Edward Watts On Feeling Like “Little Fish” In Big Oscar Pond

, the story of Al-Kateab’s effort to raise her baby daughter in Aleppo as the city was systematically destroyed.

“Before the revolution there’s no Syrian film that made it to the [Oscars’] final five,” Al-Kateab notes. “And for the Academy people to [nominate] these two films, it was for us the best thing that could ever happen.” Watts adds, “When we were making the film, we were told so often that people didn’t care about Syria anymore, that everyone was exhausted by it. And so to see at this level people engaging and supporting two films about Syria, it gives you hope that actually people do care about the fate of people who are living thousands of miles away.”was produced by the U.K.’s Channel 4 and distributed in the U.S. by PBS .

DEADLINE: You cut an initial version of the film that was more chronological. How did the people at Channel 4 react when you told them about the new structure?: We showed them the first 20 minutes [of the new version] and they were like, “We are not sure if that’s right or not.” We didn’t listen to any one of them [laughs].: SXSW was literally very special because when we applied, we applied with the old version.

DEADLINE: I noticed on your laptop, Waad, you have a sticker that says, “F**k Assad,” referring to the Syrian president. What would you say to Bashar al-Assad, if you could?: I just want to tell him really nothing lasts forever…I’m sure that a new revolution will come out soon. And everything that happened through these eight years, it will not be for nothing…Whatever Assad did, there’s one day when accountability will happen, when justice will happen and we will see that with our own eyes.

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