“The White Helmets,” a stirring documentary about a group of men in Syria who try to save bomb victims from the wreckage surrounding them, won the Oscar for Documentary (Short Subject) at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday.”White Helmets” producers were up for best feature doc for “Virunga” in 2015 – and this Netflix’s first Oscar – beating Amazon to the punch— Cara Buckley (@caraNYT) February 27, 2017The film garnered national attention before the ceremony after Khaled Khatib, a Syrian cinematographer who worked on the film, was barred from entering the country by the Department of Homeland Security over unspecified …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
