Zyara, the award winning documentary web series, created by Muriel Aboulrouss & Denise Jabbour enters S2

Zyara Filmmakers (Photo by Racha Chalhoub)

“Zyara,” is a Lebanese Documentary Web Series, that has been creating attraction for itself winning a total 20 awards to date at international film festival in Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Rome and other European festivals. The first season of “Zyara,” which in English means “Visit,” consists of 12 short videos, around about 5 minutes each, in which a person talks about his or her life. Zyara is currently in season 2.

“Zyara” is an award winning web series created by Muriel Aboulrouss and Denise Jabbour, produced by Home of Cine-Jam. “Zyara” is a series of poeticized portraits featuring people living in Lebanon; and in it’s second season Zyara chooses to highlight Lebanese people with physical challenges. People who succeeded in transcending their disability and kept going for the love of life.

“The aim of Zyara is to visit people, meet them in their personal environment, talk to them heart to heart, listen to their most cherished stories, the memories that marked them the most, feel their deepest emotions, share their dreams and their vision of life.” -Muriel & Denise

Interview with Lebanese Documentary Director-Cinematographer Muriel Aboulrouss

Departing from Lebanon, “it aims to portray people from all around the world, share their stories and unveil their visual layers. Zyara will conquer the world one heart at a time. every portrait per episode will be a journey of self discovery for the viewer in the intimacy of their own home, in front of their computer.

Zyara comes to promote oneness and spread emotions… If you believe, like we do, that the world needs love and authenticity in Art as in Life, then this web series is yours to watch and share.

To know more about the filmmakers watch the behind the scenes video below

A list of Zyara awards 

• Best documentary web series – Uk​ ​Web Fest​ ​2015
• Best documentary web series – Dublin​ ​Web Fest 2015
• Best Innovative Technique or Narrative – Bilbao Web Fest 2015
• Best Cinematography – Dublin​ ​Web Fest 2015
• Special Award Creative Media for positive change – Mythwork 2015
• Marble award for​ ​Best​ ​Non-fiction of 2015 by Web series Mag 
• Best editing at BAWEBFEST (buenos Aires) 2016
• Best cinematography at Rome     Web Merit Awards 2016
• Best directing at Rome Web Merit Awards 2016
• Best dialogues at Rome Web Merit Awards 2016
• Best world creation at Rome Web Merit Awards 2016
• Best artistic direction special award at Rome web awards 2016
• Best doc directing at webseries pilot and short film competition. 
• Best international series at Sicily WebFest
• Best doc series at fis-Med 2016
• Best doc web series at webseries trophy 
• best director at web-series trophy
• best production for home of cine-jam
• Best cinematography at web series trophy 
• Best web series of the month for season two at Direct online monthly film festival