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FILMMAKER CARLA GARAPEDIAN TO LECTURE ON PRESERVING GENOCIDE TESTIMONIES
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2012/04/04/filmmaker-carla-garapedian-to-lecture-on-preserving-genocide-testimonies/
Posted on April 4, 2012 by Editor
NEW YORK - 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 UN, and Garen Nazarian, Armenia's ambassador to the UN.
Carla Garapedian, a filmmaker and member of the Armenian Film
Foundation board of directors, will speak after the screening at the
UN on the topic of "Acknowledging the Genocide of Armenians."
Hagopian's wife, Toni, and daughter, Joanne, will also 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 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 PhD 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
Ave. in Belmont.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2012/04/04/filmmaker-carla-garapedian-to-lecture-on-preserving-genocide-testimonies/
Posted on April 4, 2012 by Editor
NEW YORK - 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 UN, and Garen Nazarian, Armenia's ambassador to the UN.
Carla Garapedian, a filmmaker and member of the Armenian Film
Foundation board of directors, will speak after the screening at the
UN on the topic of "Acknowledging the Genocide of Armenians."
Hagopian's wife, Toni, and daughter, Joanne, will also 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 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 PhD 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
Ave. in Belmont.
From: A. Papazian