Filmmaker Ahmed Jamal and British journalist Amit Roy have been nominated for the prestigious Emmy Award for their latest documentary, The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl. It will be for the 28th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

The awards will be presented at a black tie ceremony to be held on Monday, September 24 which will be attended by more than 1000 television and new media industry executives, news and documentary producers and journalists.

The 79 minute documentary, screened on cable channel HBO, tracks the comparable lives of the passionate journalist and British-born jihadi Omar Sheikh, a shrewd terrorist who set Pearl up for slaughter. Through archival footage, interviews with Pearl’s wife, Marianne and his family and friends and insights from acquaintances of both men, the film follows the parallel course of their lives: from their early years in California and London, to the defining event that led to radically divergent career paths and their final, fatal encounter in Pakistan in 2002 that ended in Pearl’s horrific murder.