Sentences with phrase «syrian citizen journalists»
Oscar - nominated director Matthew Heineman («Cartel Land») tells the story of Syrian citizen journalists taking on ISIS in their hometown.
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As we ponder the future of our country, we can take heart from the heroes of the infuriating and inspiring documentary «City of Ghosts,» directed by Matthew Heineman («Cartel Land»)-- and the citizen journalists of the Syrian group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS).
City of Ghosts (Matthew Heineman, director) Follows a number of citizen journalists who exhibit unbelievable courage in transmitting accounts of life in Raqqa, a Syrian city under ISIS domination.
In Raqqa, Syria, a campaign launched by citizen journalists is exposing the atrocities committed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al - Assad and the extremist group ISIS.
After Raqqa, Syria, was overtaken by ISIS in 2014, a group of anonymous citizen journalists formed a collective to report the truth of the Syrian conflict to the outside world.
Documentarian Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts» profiles a group of citizen - journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who are fighting the terrorist group ISIS with pens and cameras,» not guns.
As with his previous, highly topical work, the of - the - moment subject of «Ghosts» is the Islamic State, also known as ISIS — or, rather, a band of citizen journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who have defied death threats and assassinations to get the news out of the Islamic State's capital, via a Web portal called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.
The ISIS - occupied Syrian city of Raqqa may be in the news this week, but for years one of the only sources of information about it came from a group of heroic citizen journalists.
The canniest and most overwhelming documentary to date about the ongoing Syrian civil war, Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts contrasts the story of a heroic group of citizen journalists with a grim view of the international community they desperately need to galvanize.
Matthew Heinemann's City of Ghosts takes place in another sieged Syrian city, IS stronghold Raqqa, focusing on the city's citizen journalist network, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a group that records and releases in secret from this controlled zone, at considerable risk.