As the "Arab Spring" protests for justice and democracy spread through the middle east in early 2011, people long repressed by the Bahrain monarchy spontaneously gathered at the central Pearl Square to join in the call for their rights.
Direction
Welsh smuggled footage out under siege—pure nerve.
Editing
Social media feeds become tragedy in real-time.
Practical Effects
Shot on phones, DSLRs, whatever survived.
Director
May Ying Welsh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bahrain's revolution was memory-holed because it threatened US Fifth Fleet HQ and Saudi oil interests, not because it failed.
Welsh was trapped in a besieged clinic for days; her escape footage became the film's spine.
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