SAAREN FILMS
SAAREN FILMS
SAAREN FILMS
REVIEWS
POV Magazine ("BATATA - Extraordinary Work Ten Years in the Making")
https://povmagazine.com/batata-review-an-extraordinary-work-ten-years-in-the-making
Original Cin ("Top Picks for World's Biggest Doc Festival")
https://www.original-cin.ca/posts/2022/4/25/hot-docs-the-director-of-batata-talks-life-on-a-lebanese-potato-farmrefugee-camp-through-syrias-war-and-isis
POV Magazine ("BATATA Holds Top Spot in Audience Award Race")
PRINT
The Globe & Mail - Op Ed ("The Syrian Refugee Crisis Still Requires Our Urgent Attention")
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-syrian-refugee-crisis-still-requires-our-urgent-attention
Women and Hollywood ("Meet Noura Kevorkian - BATATA")
https://womenandhollywood.com/hot-docs-2022-women-directors-meet-noura-kevorkian-batata
Original Cin ("BATATA Director on Life at a Lebanese Potato Farm/Refugee Camp through Syria and ISIS")
UNHCR News ("Canadian Filmmaker Chronicles the Life of a Syrian Refugee Family in Lebanon")
https://www.unhcr.ca/news/im-very-interested-in-telling-stories-of-people-who-are-marginalised-noura-kevorkian
Hollywood North Magazine ("Noura Kevorkian Shares a Ten-Year Refugee Journey")
https://womenandhollywood.com/hot-docs-2022-women-directors-meet-noura-kevorkian-batata
RADIO/PODCASTS
CBC Radio - The Current (start time: 46:14)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/15908641-new-film-batata-follows-decade-long-plight-stranded-syrian
Corus Radio - A Little More Conversation ("New Documentary Highlights Syrian Refugee Crisis")
https://omny.fm/shows/a-little-more-conversation-with-ben-o-hara-byrne/new-documentary-highlights-syrian-refugee-crisis
Newstalk 1010 ("Noura Kevorkian Witnesses First Hand Repercussions of the Syrian War")
https://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk-1010/news/hot-docs-filmmaker-noura-kevorkian-witnesses-first-hand-repercussions-of-the-syrian-war-in-new-doc-batata-1.17627013?mode=Article
TV
Global News ("Chat with Director of BATATA")
CP24 (Interview with Noura Kevorkian)