Question: Who is the director of the documentary film titled, "Cries from Syria", and began his career as a teenager?
Context: Diane Kern (born March 18, 1966 in Dumas, Texas) is an independent filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced two independent feature films: "To Love A Mexican" and "Bloom".  She is the owner of Wintershine Productions, formerly known as DSK Film Productions.  A third feature film titled "La La Land" is in production with other projects in line.  Along with her feature films, Diane is also the producer and director for the biography documentary of award winning British composer Christopher Gunning titled Christopher's Music. Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles.  The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972.  The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time.  The genres of the songs performed included soul, gospel, R&B, blues, funk, and jazz.  Months after the festival, Stax released a double LP of the concert's highlights titled "Wattstax: The Living Word".  The concert was filmed by David L. Wolper's film crew and was made into the 1973 film titled, "Wattstax".  The film was directed by Mel Stuart and nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Documentary Film in 1974. Den Tolmor is a Russian-born American film director and producer.  Tolmor produced feature films, television series and documentaries.  Den Tolmor is best known for directing "", which earned him an 2016 Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature with Evgeny Afineevsky.  In 2017 Tolmor produced Cries from Syria, a documentary on Syrian civil war.  The film was narrated by Helen Mirren.  It was officially selected for Sundance Film Festival and aired by HBO. The sixth season of the American animated television series "SpongeBob SquarePants", created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from March 3, 2008 to July 5, 2010, and contained 26 episodes, beginning with the episode "Krabby Road".  The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom.  The season was executive produced by series creator Hillenburg and supervising producer Paul Tibbitt, who also acted as the showrunner.  In 2009, the show celebrated its tenth anniversary on television.  The documentary film titled "" premiered on July 17, 2009, and marked the anniversary. " SpongeBob's Truth or Square", a television film, and the special episode "To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants" were broadcast on Nickelodeon, as part of the celebration. Cries from Syria is a documentary film about the Syrian Civil War, directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, and acquired by HBO.  It contains video shot by Syrians with and interviews with freedom fighters, activists, journalists, defected military men, and refugees, some that are children. Talluri Rameshwari (also known as Rameshwari) is an Indian actress.  She was born and raised in Andhra Pradesh and spent her childhood in Kakinada.  She is the younger of two sisters and has no brothers.  Her elder sister's name is Krishna Kumari.  She also acted in one of the Telugu movies.  They used to live in Munsiff street, near 2-Town police station, Surya rao peta, Kakinada.  She studied 1st standard to 5th standard in City Aided Elementary School.  She studied from 6th to 10th standard in Municipal Girl's High School, Temple street.  During that time they shifted their residence to 50 buildings area, Kakinada.  She used to be so beautiful in her childhood as well as in her adolescence, resembling the veteran Hindi actress Rajshree ( V. Shantaram's daughter).  She grew up speaking Telugu.  She attended and graduated from FTII in 1975.  She became very popular and still remains popular for her two hit Hindi films: "Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye" (1977) and "Aasha" (1980), the latter earned her a Filmfare Nomination as Best Supporting Actress.  She played the character Seetalu in the hit film "Seetamalakshmi" (1978), directed by K.Vishwanath, for which she received the Nandi Award for Best actress.  Her credits include several other movies include Sunayana, Mera Rakshak, Sharda and others.  She also worked in several films in other languages (Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, Bhojpuri).  She is not a career savvy individual and never really pushed hard to reach her potential.  She is very close and remains close to her family.  She married her FTII class mate and pal, Punjabi actor-producer, Deepak Seth and has two sons Bhaskara Pratap Seth and Surya Prem Seth.  She took a sabbatical from acting to raise her children, but recently returned to acting in films, playing mature roles.  She and her husband produced a Hindi film titled "Hun Farishte Nahin" (1988) and a Punjabi film titled "Mein tuun assin tussin" (2007) based on the Shakespeare play "The Comedy of Errors".  Lately she has been working in television series. Piers Baron (born 29 October 1983) is an English film composer, record producer and musician based in Los Angeles.  He is best known for his cinematic music production, particularly in drum and bass, soundtrack and pop.  He has produced original scores for skateboarding and snowboarding movies, including Nike Snowboarding's "Never Not Part 2".  Red Bull // Travis Rice movie The Fourth Phase and viral hit Jetman : "Young Feathers" His production credits include "Prayers for this World" by Cher which was released as part of the HBO documentary Cries from Syria Evgeny Afineevsky (born October 21, 1972) is a director, producer and cinematographer.  His career began as a teenager when he won the First Prize for Best Documentary in the largest Republic in Russia and was sent to the Black Sea International Film Festival in Russia. Diana El Jeiroudi (a.k.a. Diana Aljeiroudi), (Arabic: ديانا الجيرودي‎ ‎ ; born 15 January 1977) is an award-winning, Berlin-based, Syrian independent documentary film director, producer and co-founder of DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival in Syria and DOX BOX e.V. non-profit association in Germany.  El Jeiroudi was the first Syrian to be a juror in Cannes Film Festival in 2014, when she was part of the first Documentary Film Award jury in the festival.  Together with her partner Orwa Nyrabia, El Jeiroudi was also the first Syrian known to be invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2017. Asta Anthony Philpot is an American (born Miami, Florida, 1982) man living in Leeds (United Kingdom), who was the protagonist of a 2007 BBC One documentary film titled "For one night only".  He is affected with arthrogryposis, which impairs, since his birth, his physical ability of movement.  He advocates the right to an active sexual life for people with disabilities, even if this means paying for sex.
Answer: Evgeny Afineevsky