Watermelon Pictures Co-Founders Talk Future Plans & Growing Hollywood Support For Palestinian Stories: “We’ve Been Seeing A Renaissance With A Lot Of The A-Listers”

Watermelon Pictures co-founders Badie and Hamza Ali say they plan to expand the company’s reach while continuing to back Palestinian and other underrepresented stories. They describe growing support in Hollywood, including interest from prominent actors, and say the success of their films is helping bring these stories to wider audiences.

The company’s documentary *American Doctor*, about three US physicians who treated injured children in Gaza, won the Cinema For Humanity Audience Award at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival. Watermelon Pictures also represents *Who Killed Alex Odeh?* in North America and is developing work aimed at mainstream audiences. The brothers hope eventually to become a global distribution company; their previous awards-season titles included *The Voice of Hind Rajab*, *Palestine 36* and *All That’s Left Of You*.