Noura Kevorkian

Writer, Director, Producer at Saaren Films
Director, Screenwriter and Producer

Toronto, Canada

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Audience Award TOP 10 Films - Hot Docs
(2022)
Amnesty Human Rights Award - Durban International
(2022)
Directors Guild of Canada Special Jury Prize (Honourable Mention) - Hot Docs
(2022)
Best International Documentary (Special Mention) - Durban International
(2022)
Award for Best Pitch - Dubai International Film Festival
(2009)

Genie Best Documentary
(2006)

TIFF Best Canadian Film
(2006)

TIFF Canada's Top Ten
(2006)

Official Competition - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
(2002)

National Film Board of Canada, Best Canadian Documentary - ReelWorld Film Festival
(2002)

Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary - Yorkton International Film Festival
(2002)

Audience Award - Dawson International Short Film Festival
(2002)

Best Documentary - New York International Film & Video Festival
(2002)

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BATATA (2009 - 2022)
Documentary by Saaren Films (Documentary) Writer, Director, Producer A unique feature documentary covering 10 years in the life of a Syrian woman named Maria and her family of potato farmers who find themselves stuck in Lebanon as stateless refugees.
23 KILOMETRES (2013 - 2015)
Documentary by Saaren Films Writer, Director, Producer On the Damascus Road in Lebanon’s beautiful Beqaa Valley, an Armenian man with late-stage Parkinson’s takes one last journey.
SEX + RELIGION (2009 - 2010)
Television by Vision Television Writer, Director Commissioned by Vision Television in Ontario, a 13xhalf-hour series about how sex and religion co-exist and how sex fits into the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment.
ANJAR: FLOWERS, GOATS AND HEROES (2006 - 2008)
Documentary by Saaren Films Writer, Director, Producer A feature documentary about the filmmaker’s childhood village Anjar in Lebanon and the history of her people: a group of Armenians who collectively survived the 20th century’s first genocide.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (2004 - 2006)
Documentary by Mercury Films Inc. Production Manager Feature documentary exploring the narrative line found within the photography of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky.
THE HEROES OF MUSA DAGH (2005 - 2006)
Television Writer, Director, Producer Commissioned by OMNI Television. A Television one-hour documentary in Armenian language about the history of the Musa Dagh people.
CODE GREEN (2005 - 2006)
by Six Island Productions, Tell Tale Productions, Laughing Mountain Communications Director (Ontario episodes) Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the world’s first environmental home-makeover challenge TV series.
HEROES OF THE MOUNTAIN (2003 - 2004)
Film (short) Writer, Director, Producer Choreographed to stunning original music recordings, HEROES OF THE MOUNTAIN is a 19-minute photo-essay. A photographic montage of over 500 stills, portraits, archival photographs, CGI images and digital video images choreographed to breathtaking musical movements that tells one hundred years of the history of the heroic people of Musa Dagh.
DREAMS OF EDUCATION (2002 - 2003)
Film (short) Writer, Director Commissioned by The National Film Board of Canada. A short documentary about the challenges high school students face in their pursuit for higher education.
VEILS UNCOVERED (2001 - 2002)
Documentary by Saaren Films Writer, Director, Producer A journey into the unexplored sexual and competitive world of the veiled women of Damascus Syria as they shop for lingerie in a public market.