EXCLUSIVE: Watermelon Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to American Doctor, the award-winning documentary about three U.S. physicians who volunteered to treat grievously wounded Palestinian children in Gaza.
Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Poh Si Teng (St. Louis Superman, Patrice: The Movie) directed the film, which just won the Tom Rankin Audience Award at the Full Frame festival in Durham, NC. It won the audience award and the Michael Sullivan Frontline Award for Journalism at Salem Film Fest in Massachusetts, and at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece, it won the prestigious Amnesty International Award and the Peter Wintonick Audience Award. At CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, American Doctor earned an honorable mention in the HUMAN:RIGHTS AWARD category.
Watermelon Pictures, the company founded by brothers Badie and Hamza Ali, earned an Oscar nomination this year for The Voice of Hind
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