Feras Fayyad is an award-winning filmmaker who has received particular recognition for his work on contemporary Syrian issues and the political transformation of the Arab world. His most recent film, “Last Men in Aleppo,” earned him a 2018 Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. The film followed a small group of volunteer rescue workers with the White Helmets civil defense organization. “Last Men in Aleppo” premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary competition. It film went on to screen at festivals around the globe and received numerous international awards.
Fayyad was born in Syria in 1984. He holds a BA in Audio-visual Arts and Filmmaking from the international film and television school EICAR in Paris. He has directed and edited several films, both documentaries and fiction. His other films include the feature documentary “My Escape” (2016) and television documentaries “Between the Fighter in Syria” and “Wide Shot-Close Shot.” He also produced, co-wrote and edited the award-winning short film “One Day in Aleppo” (2017) directed by Ali Alibrahim.
