EMMY-AWARD WINNING Shelley Saywell and her team at Bishari Films have made 20 independent documentaries that have been screened around the world, shining a light on some of most compelling issues of our times.

Critics have called their films:

"BRAVE FILMAKING AT ITS BEST"
- Terry Waite, former hostage, Lebanon

"POWERFUL"
- CRITICS CHOICE The London Times

"NOT TO BE MISSED"
- Boston Globe

"EYE-OPENING SOCIAL POLITICAL JOURNALISM"
- Variety

"A SCORCHER, A HEART SCALDING EXPOSE"
- The Globe and Mail

"GENIUS WORK OF STAGGERING HEARTBREAK"
- The Toronto Star

"POSITIVELY BRILLIANT"
- Jim Bawden, TV Critic

Award winning documentaries spanning stories from around the globe: best known films: Kim’s Story: the Road from Vietnam, Crimes of Honor, A Child’s Century of War. Focus: violence against women, violence against children, conflict, terrorism, Hamas, Iraq War, Iran, Intifadah, small arms trafficking, Bosnia, Siege of Sarajevo, rape as strategy of war, International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, war correspondents, Afghanistan conflict, Chechnyan war orphans, child soldiers, Sierra Leone, Kim Phuc, napalm girl, famous photograph Vietnam war, Holocaust, Jewish Partisans, honor killings, homelessness, poverty.