&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This week, in honor of the upcoming Academy Awards,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here's the Thing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;brings you a collection of conversations with Oscar-winners -- and, today, with a pair of 2020 nominees.  They are Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, the co-directors of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;For Sama&lt;/em&gt;, which is up for Best Documentary Feature.  It's a movie pieced together from more than 500 hours of footage shot by Al-Kateab, a young mother in rebel-controlled Aleppo, Syria, as government troops closed in.  &lt;em&gt;For Sama&lt;/em&gt; is about what it's like for an ordinary, middle-class family to conceive and raise a child in a city under siege.  As the San Francisco &lt;em&gt;Chronicle&lt;/em&gt; puts it, "&lt;em&gt;For Sama&lt;/em&gt; is a film made with the instincts of a journalist, the passion of a revolutionary, and the beating heart of a mother."  Watts, Waad, and Waad's husband, Dr. Hamza Al-Kateab, joined Alec at a live taping of &lt;em&gt;Here's the Thing&lt;/em&gt; at the Hamptons International Film Festival.&lt;/p&gt;

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The Oscars Series, Day 5: For Sama, This Year's Most Powerful Documentary

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