About
Born and raised in Syria, Sargon Saadi is an Assyrian film director based in Los Angeles. He studied cinematography at Columbia College Chicago where he graduated with a BA in Film in 2011.
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Sargon has worked on numerous projects ranging from independent films to big budget productions.
After the turmoil in the Middle East, he turned his focus to documentaries, producing several films in Turkey, Iraq, and his native Syria, dedicated to raising awareness about the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities. His latest film "Silence After The Storm" got distribution on Amazon Prime, Tubi TV, and Google Play.
Sargon received several awards for his films including "Best Director" award for his work on "Silence After the Storm" at the Fine Arts Film Festival Venice, which was also nominated for "Best Short Documentary" at the International Film Fest Madrid, Spain.
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His previous film, "The Last Plight", is an award-winning documentary that was screened before the United Nations and the European Parliament, and lately received "Best Short Documentary" award at the NewFilmmakers LA Film Festival.
His latest project "Khabour in a Thousand Words" is a series of 23 photographs (In remembrance of Feb 23rd, 2015) showing heart-wrenching destruction inflected upon the Assyrian villages of Khabour in Syria after ISIS invasion in 2015.
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It was exhibited in Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Washington DC, and Toronto as a concentrated effort to raise awareness about the injustice as well as to raise funds for reconstruction efforts in the homeland.