Marcel Mettelsiefen is an Emmy award-winning independent German documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, photojournalist and co-publisher of Zenith Magazine. He has worked for international news agencies in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti. In 2004 he began studying medicine in Berlin. In 2009, he interrupted his studies to go to Afghanistan to work on several photo reportage projects. His photos from that time appear in a book about the controversial airstrike on Kunduz which killed over 100 civilians. Marcel has been covering the Arab spring and started going to Syria in April 2011. Since then he has returned to the war-torn country over twenty times. His reports from Syria have aired on Channel4, PBS Frontline, ZDF, CNN, Al Jazeera and Canal+.His film »agony of Aleppo’s children« was awarded TV News Story of the Year by the London Foreign Press Association in 2013 and with the International Emmy Award (2014). His film »children on the frontline« was awarded i.e. with two BAFTA´s and one international Emmy in 2015. He’s also known for his work at Frontline and Unreported Worlds.