MTV Documentary Films has set set July 30 as the theatrical release date for “Sabaya.”
The documentary that generated strong reviews at Sundance this year follows the sexual exploitation of women in the Kurdish religious minority group of Yazidi. The title refers to the term used for individuals who are abducted and forced into sexual slavery. The film will have theatrical runs in New York, Los Angeles and other key markets as MTV Documentary Films has high hopes for its chances as an film awards contender.
The film follows Mahmud, Ziyad and their group of fellow Yazidis who, armed with only a mobile phone and a gun, risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by Isis in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria.
Writer-director Hogir Hirori recently won the directing award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
The documentary that generated strong reviews at Sundance this year follows the sexual exploitation of women in the Kurdish religious minority group of Yazidi. The title refers to the term used for individuals who are abducted and forced into sexual slavery. The film will have theatrical runs in New York, Los Angeles and other key markets as MTV Documentary Films has high hopes for its chances as an film awards contender.
The film follows Mahmud, Ziyad and their group of fellow Yazidis who, armed with only a mobile phone and a gun, risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by Isis in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria.
Writer-director Hogir Hirori recently won the directing award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
- 7/12/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
Hot on the heels of its Sundance selection, London-based sales agent and distributor Dogwoof has acquired Hogir Hirori’s documentary “Sabaya” and will shop global rights.
The film will receive its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary section of the 2021 festival. Dogwoof previously repped Hirori’s IDFA-winning documentary “The Deminer” (2017), which follows a former Iraqi soldier on a personal mission to disarm thousands of landmines using just a pocketknife and some wirecutters.
“Sabaya” is the term used for individuals abducted and forced into sexual slavery. The film follows Mahmud, Ziyad and their group of fellow Yazidis who, armed with only a mobile phone and a gun, risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by Isis as Sabaya in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria.
“Following a great collaboration with Dogwoof for my previous documentary, ‘The Deminer,’ it was an...
The film will receive its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary section of the 2021 festival. Dogwoof previously repped Hirori’s IDFA-winning documentary “The Deminer” (2017), which follows a former Iraqi soldier on a personal mission to disarm thousands of landmines using just a pocketknife and some wirecutters.
“Sabaya” is the term used for individuals abducted and forced into sexual slavery. The film follows Mahmud, Ziyad and their group of fellow Yazidis who, armed with only a mobile phone and a gun, risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by Isis as Sabaya in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria.
“Following a great collaboration with Dogwoof for my previous documentary, ‘The Deminer,’ it was an...
- 12/16/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Creative Europe executive Lucia Recalde pledged to filmmakers “we are here to help you.”
Over 200 film and television professionals took part in the inaugural online session of Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (Cph:dox)’s Forum industry strand, which discussed how to tackle the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the film industry on Tuedsay (March 24).
The event, which was hosted by Cph:dox on video chat platform Zoom, was open to over 350 Cph:forum delegates, who were able to enter and leave the online space as it proceeded.
At its peak over 200 participants were in the shared space at one time, the majority...
Over 200 film and television professionals took part in the inaugural online session of Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (Cph:dox)’s Forum industry strand, which discussed how to tackle the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the film industry on Tuedsay (March 24).
The event, which was hosted by Cph:dox on video chat platform Zoom, was open to over 350 Cph:forum delegates, who were able to enter and leave the online space as it proceeded.
At its peak over 200 participants were in the shared space at one time, the majority...
- 3/25/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
The industry part of Cph:dox opened with an online discussion providing an overview of Covid-19’s impact on the documentary film industry. Forced to respond to the pandemic mere days before its opening, Cph:dox has since successfully launched online, providing its audience with a chance to see films and debates, but also maintaining some industry activities – a much-needed development, as it turned out, and one that brought out many smiles. “I have missed my international family, and here you are!” observed Axel Arnö, commissioning editor at Svt. “We felt an obligation to figure out a solution to keep the promise we have made to filmmakers and the industry,” explained Tereza Simikova, head of Cph:forum. “That’s how we built an online festival – in a week!” The first-ever digital Cph:forum started with a discussion, followed by networking in the virtual meeting rooms. “‘Business as unusual’ has been the tagline for our.
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