Marcel Mettelsiefen

Marcel Mettelsiefen is a German war correspondent photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. His films on Syrian Civil War such as Syria: Children on the Frontline (2014), Children on the Frontline: The Escape (2016) and Watani: My Homeland (2016) earner him critical appraisal and recognition. For his work he was given Rory Peck Award and received Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject nomination for Watani: My Homeland at 89th Academy Awards, with producer Stephen Ellis. He is co-publisher of Zenith Magazine.

Mettelsiefen has worked for international news agencies in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti. In 2004 he started medicine school in Berlin. In 2009 he suspended his studies to go to Afghanistan to work on several photo reportage projects. His photos from that time appear in a book about the controversial airstrike on Kunduz which killed over 100 civilians. Mettelsiefen has been covering the Arab Spring and Syria specifically since April 2011. Since then he has returned to the war-torn country more than twenty times. His reports from Syria have aired on Channel4, PBS Frontline, CNN, Al Jazeera, Canal+ etc.

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