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ARMENIAN FILM FOUNDATION
2219 E. Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Suite 292
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
Tel: 805-495-0717
Fax: 805-379-0667
Filmmaker Carla Garapedian to Lecture on Preserving Genocide Testimonies
at U.N., then Boston
(New York, March 30, 2012) - The late Dr. J. Michael Hagopian's
award-winning documentary film, The River Ran Red, will be screened at
the United Nations during a symposium on April 12 on preventing
genocide. The Honorary Chairs of the symposium are Eugene-Richard
Gasana, Rwandan ambassador to the U.N., and Karen Nazarian, Armenia's
ambassador to the U.N.
Carla Garapedian, a filmmaker and member of the Armenian Film
Foundation board of directors, will speak after the screening at the
U.N. on the topic of "Acknowledging the Genocide of Armenians."
Hagopian's wife, Toni, and daughter, Joanne, have been invited and
will attend the screening.
The following day, Garapedian will present a lecture titled "The
Digital Revolution: Armenian Genocide testimonials and the Shoah
Visual History Archive" at the National Association of Armenian
Studies and Research in Belmont, Mass. Her April 13 lecture will be in
honor of J. Michael Hagopian, the founder of the Armenian Film
Foundation and NAASR's first board member for California (1959-65).
Garapedian will discuss the new ways Armenian Genocide survivor and
witness testimonies are being made available to universities around
the world via the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History
Archive. Founded by filmmaker Steven Spielberg in 1994, the Shoah
Foundation has 52,000 Holocaust survivor video interviews and is now
adding testimonies from other genocides, including the massacre of
Armenians in 1915. Hagopian's 400 filmed survivor and eyewitness
testimonies will be the first of the Armenian Genocide interviews to
be included in this digital collection.
During her talk, Garapedian, the project leader for the Armenian Film
Foundation's digitization effort, will give a demonstration of Shoah's
powerful search engine and discuss the challenges of presenting
survivor information via the internet.
Garapedian is the director of the film Screamers, which was widely
credited with helping to change the public debate on recognition of
the Armenian Genocide in 2006 and 2007. A native of Los Angeles,
Garapedian worked as a producer, director, and correspondent for BBC
in London after earning a Ph.D. in international relations from the
London School of Economics and Political Science.
She is the recipient of the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award and was
recently given the Clara Barton Medal of Gratitude from the Armenian
Genocide Museum-Institute. She worked closely with Hagopian on his
"Witnesses" trilogy of documentary films on the Armenian Genocide. The
River Ran Red is the third film in the trilogy.
The April 13 lecture begins at 8 p.m. at the NAASR Center, 395 Concord
Avenue in Belmont. For more information, call (617) 489-1610 or e-mail
[email protected].
2219 E. Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Suite 292
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
Tel: 805-495-0717
Fax: 805-379-0667
Filmmaker Carla Garapedian to Lecture on Preserving Genocide Testimonies
at U.N., then Boston
(New York, March 30, 2012) - The late Dr. J. Michael Hagopian's
award-winning documentary film, The River Ran Red, will be screened at
the United Nations during a symposium on April 12 on preventing
genocide. The Honorary Chairs of the symposium are Eugene-Richard
Gasana, Rwandan ambassador to the U.N., and Karen Nazarian, Armenia's
ambassador to the U.N.
Carla Garapedian, a filmmaker and member of the Armenian Film
Foundation board of directors, will speak after the screening at the
U.N. on the topic of "Acknowledging the Genocide of Armenians."
Hagopian's wife, Toni, and daughter, Joanne, have been invited and
will attend the screening.
The following day, Garapedian will present a lecture titled "The
Digital Revolution: Armenian Genocide testimonials and the Shoah
Visual History Archive" at the National Association of Armenian
Studies and Research in Belmont, Mass. Her April 13 lecture will be in
honor of J. Michael Hagopian, the founder of the Armenian Film
Foundation and NAASR's first board member for California (1959-65).
Garapedian will discuss the new ways Armenian Genocide survivor and
witness testimonies are being made available to universities around
the world via the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History
Archive. Founded by filmmaker Steven Spielberg in 1994, the Shoah
Foundation has 52,000 Holocaust survivor video interviews and is now
adding testimonies from other genocides, including the massacre of
Armenians in 1915. Hagopian's 400 filmed survivor and eyewitness
testimonies will be the first of the Armenian Genocide interviews to
be included in this digital collection.
During her talk, Garapedian, the project leader for the Armenian Film
Foundation's digitization effort, will give a demonstration of Shoah's
powerful search engine and discuss the challenges of presenting
survivor information via the internet.
Garapedian is the director of the film Screamers, which was widely
credited with helping to change the public debate on recognition of
the Armenian Genocide in 2006 and 2007. A native of Los Angeles,
Garapedian worked as a producer, director, and correspondent for BBC
in London after earning a Ph.D. in international relations from the
London School of Economics and Political Science.
She is the recipient of the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award and was
recently given the Clara Barton Medal of Gratitude from the Armenian
Genocide Museum-Institute. She worked closely with Hagopian on his
"Witnesses" trilogy of documentary films on the Armenian Genocide. The
River Ran Red is the third film in the trilogy.
The April 13 lecture begins at 8 p.m. at the NAASR Center, 395 Concord
Avenue in Belmont. For more information, call (617) 489-1610 or e-mail
[email protected].