An L.A.-Based Syrian-American Filmmaker Has Put Away His Camera to Focus on the Refugee Crisis
Until recently, Syrian-American filmmaker Elias Matar probably was best known for Chingaso the Clown, his 2006 campy short thriller about an orphaned clown bent on revenge. That all began to change in the fall of 2015, when he flew from his home in Glendale to Austria. From there he planned......