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"GRANDMA'S TATTOOS'" TO BE SCREENED AT GLENDALE LIBRARY
ARMRADIO.AM
29.11.2011 10:34
Director Suzanne Khardalian will discuss her film, Grandma's Tattoos,
following a screening of the film on Friday December 2 at the Glendale
Public Library Auditorium, Asbarez Daily reports.
Suzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied
journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris
until 1985 when she started to work on films. She also holds a Master's
Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at
Tufts University and contributes articles to different journals. She
has directed more than twenty films that have been shown both in
Europe and the US.
"Grandma was abducted and kept in slavery for many years somewhere in
Turkey. She was also forcibly marked, -tattooed - as a property, the
same way you mark cattle. The discovery of the story has shaken me. I
share the shame, the guilt and anger that infected my grandma's life.
Grandma Khanoum's fate was not an aberration. On the contrary tens of
thousands of Armenian children and teenagers were raped and abducted,
kept in slavery," explained Suzanne Khardalian.
"Grandma's Tattoos" is a film that lifts the veil of thousands
of forgotten women-survivors of the Genocide-who were forced into
prostitution and were tattooed to distinguish them from the locals.
The program is organized by the Glendale and Burbank chapters of the
Armenian National Committee-Western Region and Asbarez Daily newspaper
and is sponsored by The Glendale Public library.
ARMRADIO.AM
29.11.2011 10:34
Director Suzanne Khardalian will discuss her film, Grandma's Tattoos,
following a screening of the film on Friday December 2 at the Glendale
Public Library Auditorium, Asbarez Daily reports.
Suzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied
journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris
until 1985 when she started to work on films. She also holds a Master's
Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at
Tufts University and contributes articles to different journals. She
has directed more than twenty films that have been shown both in
Europe and the US.
"Grandma was abducted and kept in slavery for many years somewhere in
Turkey. She was also forcibly marked, -tattooed - as a property, the
same way you mark cattle. The discovery of the story has shaken me. I
share the shame, the guilt and anger that infected my grandma's life.
Grandma Khanoum's fate was not an aberration. On the contrary tens of
thousands of Armenian children and teenagers were raped and abducted,
kept in slavery," explained Suzanne Khardalian.
"Grandma's Tattoos" is a film that lifts the veil of thousands
of forgotten women-survivors of the Genocide-who were forced into
prostitution and were tattooed to distinguish them from the locals.
The program is organized by the Glendale and Burbank chapters of the
Armenian National Committee-Western Region and Asbarez Daily newspaper
and is sponsored by The Glendale Public library.