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FILMMAKER TO SPEAK ON DIGITIZATION OF GENOCIDE SURVIVOR ACCOUNTS
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 26, 2012 - 22:40 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On April 13, acclaimed filmmaker Dr. Carla
Garapedian will give a lecture entitled "The Digital Revolution:
Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimonies and the Shoah Visual History
Archive" at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
(NAASR) Center in Belmont, The Armenian Weekly reports.
The lecture will be co-sponsored by the Armenian Film Foundation
(AFF), of which Garapedian is a Board member, and NAASR; and it will
be in memory of Dr. J. Michael Hagopian (1913-2010), the founder of
the AFF 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 Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive.
Founded by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, the Shoah Foundation contains
52,000 Holocaust survivor video interviews and is now adding
testimonies from other genocides, including the Armenian Genocide. Dr.
J. Michael Hagopian's 400 filmed survivor interviews will be the
first of the Armenian Genocide testimonies to be included in this
digital collection. Garapedian, the project leader for the Armenian
Film Foundation's digitization effort, will give a demonstration of
the 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. Other films include "Lifting
the Veil," about the brutal treatment of women in Afghanistan, and
"Iran Undercover," about the underground student movement in Iran,
which won the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2005 as part of the PBS
Frontline World series. She worked closely with J. Michael Hagopian
on his "Witnesses" trilogy.
Garapedian earned a Ph.D. in international relations at the London
School of Economics and Political Science before working as a producer,
director, and correspondent based in London. She is the recipient of
the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award and the ABGU Generation Next
Community Hero Award, and was recently given the Clara Barton Medal
of Gratitude from the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 26, 2012 - 22:40 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On April 13, acclaimed filmmaker Dr. Carla
Garapedian will give a lecture entitled "The Digital Revolution:
Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimonies and the Shoah Visual History
Archive" at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
(NAASR) Center in Belmont, The Armenian Weekly reports.
The lecture will be co-sponsored by the Armenian Film Foundation
(AFF), of which Garapedian is a Board member, and NAASR; and it will
be in memory of Dr. J. Michael Hagopian (1913-2010), the founder of
the AFF 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 Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive.
Founded by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, the Shoah Foundation contains
52,000 Holocaust survivor video interviews and is now adding
testimonies from other genocides, including the Armenian Genocide. Dr.
J. Michael Hagopian's 400 filmed survivor interviews will be the
first of the Armenian Genocide testimonies to be included in this
digital collection. Garapedian, the project leader for the Armenian
Film Foundation's digitization effort, will give a demonstration of
the 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. Other films include "Lifting
the Veil," about the brutal treatment of women in Afghanistan, and
"Iran Undercover," about the underground student movement in Iran,
which won the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2005 as part of the PBS
Frontline World series. She worked closely with J. Michael Hagopian
on his "Witnesses" trilogy.
Garapedian earned a Ph.D. in international relations at the London
School of Economics and Political Science before working as a producer,
director, and correspondent based in London. She is the recipient of
the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award and the ABGU Generation Next
Community Hero Award, and was recently given the Clara Barton Medal
of Gratitude from the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.
From: A. Papazian