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Directing Documentary City of Ghosts

Matthew Heineman | On Directing

Matthew Heineman, director of the BAFTA-nominated City of Ghosts, talks creating his documentary following an anonymous Syrian activist group. Heineman discusses how the story changed as he was filming - one of his favourite things about making documentaries; "you often start out doing one thing, and then it evolves" - to follow the lives of activists as they became refugees