Whatever Happened To ... The Syrian Who Risked His Life And Won An Oscar?
Khaled Khatib captured much of the footage for The White Helmets, an Oscar-winning documentary about search and rescue volunteers in war-torn Aleppo. What's he doing now?
When we first spoke to Khaled Khatib, he had just finished working on The White Helmets, a 41-minute Netflix documentary about a group of volunteer rescue workers who were helping those caught in the crossfire of Syria's bloody civil war.
That was last September.
Now 22-year-old Khatib can call himself an Oscar-winning cinematographer.
In February, Khatib watched the Oscar ceremonies from Istanbul — where he is now had come over to watch with him — and promptly fallen asleep. "I shook him and said, 'Fadi wake up, wake up!' and then of course we celebrated," Khatib recalls. "We were so happy."
