BAFTA-winning filmmaker Hassan Akkad becomes ‘superhero’

Author: News Desk

British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) award-winning filmmaker Hassan Akkad has become a real ‘superhero’ as he joined an army of cleaners disinfecting coronavirus wards.

The filmmaker has joined the NHS as a hospital cleaner in order to help in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Hassan Akkad, who won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 2017 for the three-part documentary film ‘Exodus: Our Journey to Europe,’ revealed on Twitter that he is joining the NHS frontline in the wake of the global health emergency. The 23-year-old filmmaker said, “Honoured to join an army of cleaners disinfecting COVID wards our local hospital after receiving training. London has been my home since leaving Syria, and the least I can do is making sure my neighbours and the amazing NHS staff are safe and sound.”

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