>> talal derki: the songs, his songs. >> simon: as soon as talal derki, the film's director, heard bassethe knew he had found his subject. we spoke to talal in istanbul. he was 19 when you started filming it. >> derki: yes, 19. >> simon: and he had no fear. >> derki: no fear at all. >> simon: like the day basset stood above the crowd and started taunting the regime's snipers, who had him in their crosshairs. >> derki: he start to shout, "listen, sniper, this is my head and this is my neck," that "i am a clear target if you want to... to shoot me, but i will not be afraid." >> simon: the snipers didn't shoot basset that day, but soon, all across syria, the regime began meeting the protestor's chants with bullets, tanks, and bombs. makeshift field hospitals sprang up in garages and storefronts. basset became a marked man, but try as they might, they couldn't get him, so they took out his brother, his cousins, his friends. >> orwa nyrabia: they were all killed in his family's apartment. it was a very difficult moment. >> simon: orwa nyrabia, the documentary's producer, also filmed parts of i