In a rare joint action, both TV academies have banded together and sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking him to act on journalists and documentarians “being denied entry to …
, who was not able to attend the International Documentary Association’s Documentary Awards in Los Angeles and accept his prize for best writing, for “The Cave.”
Fayyad had previously won an Emmy in 2018 for “Last Man in Aleppo,” which received the outstanding current affairs documentary category, administered by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. “Last Man in Aleppo” was broadcast nationally by PBS.last week, Fayyad’s spokesperson detailed the documentarian’s trouble in obtaining a visa to return to the U.S.
The letter notes that it is the nationalities of filmmakers like Fayyad that helps them tell “important stories of the highest relevance to the American public’s understanding of the Middle East and of U.S. policy in the region. The work is chosen for U.S. network broadcast and recognized by Emmy judges partly because of this public interest.”
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