BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Halifax X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Halifax BEGIN:VEVENT UID:845@devourfest.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221029T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221029T163000 DTSTAMP:20221001T192044Z URL:https://devourfest.com/program/batata-w-chicatanas/ SUMMARY:Batata w/Chicatanas DESCRIPTION:In March 2012\, Syrian migrants began flooding many parts of th e world\, including the impoverished Bekaa Valley in Lebanon\, searching f or work and a temporary respite from the beginnings of civil unrest. Shot over an unparalleled decade\, Lebanese-Syrian director Noura Kevorkian fol lows the plight of Maria and her community of Syrian migrant workers who\, after toiling for decades in Lebanon’s fertile Bekaa Valley\, find them selves unable to return to their hometown of Raqqa\, Syria.\n\nCanada/Leba non/Qatar\, 2022\, 126 minutes\nDirector: Noura Kevorkian\nDistributor: Si x Island Productions\n\nChicatanas\n\nChicatana ants are edible flying ins ects harvested in the dark of night. Richly flavorful and more challenging to forage than truffles\, this incredibly rare Mexican delicacy must be g athered by hand in select parts of the country\, during the first major ra ins of late spring and early summer.\n\nUSA\, 2022\, 4 minutes\nDirector: Daniel Klein\n\nSponsored by Agri-Food Analytics Lab @ Dalhousie Universit y\, Telefilm Canada and EOS Natural Foods\n\nDirector Noura Kevorkian and producer Paul Scherzer will be in attendance and will participate in a po st-screening Q&\;A with Sylvain Charlebois from the Agri-Food Analytics Lab and Tareq Hadhad\, the Founder&\; CEO ofPeace By Chocolate.\n\nNo ura Kevorkian\, Director\n\nNoura Kevorkian is a Lebanese-Syrian-Armenian filmmaker. She made her filmmaking debut with the multi-award-winning Veil s Uncovered (Official Competition IDFA)\, followed by the historical docum entary Anjar (MED Festival Rome)\, and the hybrid drama-doc feature 23 Kil ometres (Official Competition Karlovy Vary). Noura’s latest\, the Canada -Lebanon-Qatar feature Batata (Audience Top 10 Hot Docs\, Amnesty Award Du rban International)\, is an unparalleled documentary that follows 10 years in the life of a strong\, unmarried Syrian woman and her family strugglin g in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Noura is currently working on her next doc umentary feature Taste of Longing and her debut narrative feature Syrian D ancer.\n\nPaul Scherzer\, Producer\n\nFounder and president of Six Island Productions\, Paul Scherzer has produced a host of acclaimed international diverse-voice features like the LGBTQ+ Venice award-winner Saint-Narcisse \, the Berlinale comedy Coconut Hero (Canada/Germany)\, and Cannes opener Challat of Tunis (Tunisia/France/Canada) by Oscar-nominated Kaouther BenHa nia\, as well as feature docs like Sundance favourite Manufactured Landsca pes and Hot Docs Gala opener The Manor. Prior to establishing Six Island\, Paul worked for Telefilm and the National Film Board of Canada. He is a g raduate of the Canadian Film Centre\, a TIFF STUDIO alumnus\, and a member of the Canadian Academy and the European producers’ network ACE.\n\nSyl vain Charlebois\, Host\n\nDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a food distribution an d policy professor in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalho usie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-foo d Analytics Lab\, also located at Dalhousie University. He is as well the former Dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University.  Known as “The Food Professor”\, his current research interest lies in the br oad area of food distribution\, security and safety. He is one of the worl d's most cited scholars in food supply chain management\, food value chain s and traceability. Since 2020\, he co-hosts The Food Professor podcast\, discussing issues in the food\, foodservice\, grocery and restaurant indus tries.\n\nHe has authored five books on global food systems\, his most rec ent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety\, Ris k Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 750 peer-re viewed journal articles in several academic and professional publications. Furthermore\, his research has been featured in several newspapers and me dia groups\, including The Economist\, the New York Times\, the Boston Glo be\, the Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, BBC\, NBC\, ABC\, Fox New s\, Foreign Affairs\, the Globe &\; Mail\, the National Post and the To ronto Star. @sylvain.charlebois\n\nTareq Hadhad\n\nTareq Hadhad is telling his story. He is a Syrian refugee and now living his new life in Canada ’s East Coast as the founder and CEO of Peace by Chocolate.\nPassionate about peace and entrepreneurship\, his family relaunched the family busine ss to recreate the chocolates they once exported across the Middle East.\n In January 2020\, Tareq received his Canadian Citizenship which garnered i nternational attention. Author\, Jon Tattrie wrote a best-selling book abo ut Hadhad’s story. A feature film\, Peace by Chocolate\, premiered at th e Tribeca Film Festival and won several awards.\nTareq has delivered keyno te presentations around the world and has done over 500 interviews with ne ws teams across the globe. 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