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009: Emmy Flex
In 2022, all eyes will be on Qatar for the FIFA World Cup. In the meantime, migrant workers building the stadiums are competing in a soccer tournament of their own, providing a bittersweet respite from the hard work in the labor camps. Nominated for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary.
What is life like when a deadly virus sweeps through your country? Sierra Leonean filmmakers turn the camera on their fellow citizens to capture how people coped in the face of the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Nominated for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary.
Meet Nori Sharif, a nurse who stays put with his family in Iraq's "Triangle of Death," in the midst of ISIS' rise to power. Nominated for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary.
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