TOURINFO-YEREVAN- In a virtual ceremony on July 26, the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) awarded the Emmy for Outstanding Directing Special Class for the critically acclaimed documentary film Hate Among Us, co-produced by David McKenzie, Dean Cain, Montel Williams, and Sergey Sarkisov.
Distributed by Associated Television International (ATI), Hate Among Us tackles the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide. It tracks the origins of hate crimes against members of the Jewish faith; under the leadership of Adolf Hitler to the present day; from Europe to the United States and throughout the world; and told from the perspective of individuals of all faiths. Included is travel show personality Laura McKenzie, who is also an executive producer.
The film, which includes interviews with the family members of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who was murdered in her Paris apartment in 2018 in an anti-Semitic hate crime, was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Special Class Special and Outstanding Directing Special Class.
“It helps us to achieve our goal,” said Dean Cain, “which is to shine a light on hate and help educate people about the history and the current growth of hate and anti-Semitism. We are very excited about this recognition and hope this brings more awareness to this serious humanitarian crisis.”
Montel Williams agreed. “When we set out to make Hate Among Us, we knew it was an urgent project. In these divided times, we have to remember that hate and bigotry are never the answer.”
“The response of the community from this inhumanity proves that this topic is very important to many people as well as being very relevant,” states Sergey Sarkisov. “I do believe that Hate Among Us contributes to the proper understanding and empathy that any kind of national, racial, or religious hate continues to be an existing danger and every human, including humanity itself, can be a target.”
“Hate Among Us” is the second film from the producing quartet of McKenzie, Cain, Williams, and Sarkisov with their first being the also critically lauded documentary Architects of Denial (2017) which shed light on the Armenian Genocide that is still not fully recognized as of this day.
