Wiam Simav Bedirxan is a Syrian Kurdish documentary filmmaker from Homs, who co-directed the 2014 film "Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait" with exiled filmmaker Usama Muhammad. Bedirxan documented the Siege of Homs and sent its footage via the internet to Muhammad in Paris in order to make "Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait", which had its world premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.