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KUPELIAN TO MAKE ''EAST OF BYZANTIUM'' GRAPHIC NOVEL ON ARMENIA INTO A MINI- DOCUMENTARY SERIES
13:03, 15 November, 2012
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 15, ARMENPRESS: US Glendel Community College El
Vaquero student newspaper dwelled on the creator of some of the
most iconic worlds in contemporary cinema - Armenian descent film
director Roger Kupelian. As Armenpress reports, East of Byzantium is
Kupelian's recently published graphic novel series and he is looking
to make it into not only a mini-documentary series, but into a major
motion picture. East of Byzantium spans 150 years of Armenian history
starting at 301 A.D. when Armenia became the first Christian state in
history. Persia and the Roman Empire were warring with one another and
between this collision is Armenia," said Kupelian. Emperor Diocletian
sent an exiled Armenian king back to claim Armenia as an ally of Rome.
That changed that region of the world forever. It set a series of
events in motion and altered not only the balance between empires, but
the balance of religions and cultures. The constant bloodshed leads
into the year 451 A.D. and Kupelian's interpretation of St. Vartan
Mamigonian, the most venerated saint in the Armenian Orthodox Church.
I wanted a Vartan that was very different than the one history depicts,
said Kupelian. I wanted a Vartan that I can relate to. I wanted
someone that was in the mud, on the battlefield and was struggling
for his life, because that moment is glory for a warrior.
Kupelian painted his first image of Vartan in New Zealand, on
the set of "Lord of the Rings". Kupelian also dwelled on Nagorno
Karabakh conflict. "Dark Forest in the Mountains" was Kupelian's
first documentary, and the first time he directed a movie. He started
filming the war in the 1990s. Avedis Sangigian is an Armenian-American
veteran from the Nagorno-Karabakh War who attended Kupelian's lecture.
Sangigian fought for a year and a half and was one of many Armenian
Americans that volunteered to fight. Garo Kyahkidjian was a friend
of Sangigian and is a main character in Kupelian's documenatry.
Kyahkidjian died after the war. I watch that documentary everyday,said
Sangigian, in memory of his old friend. Sangigian and Kyahkidjian's
bravery makes them warriors, according to Kupelian. I want our next
generation to see itself in terms of being a warrior,said Kupelian. We
must once again embrace and embody what it means to be a warrior tribe.
From: A. Papazian
13:03, 15 November, 2012
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 15, ARMENPRESS: US Glendel Community College El
Vaquero student newspaper dwelled on the creator of some of the
most iconic worlds in contemporary cinema - Armenian descent film
director Roger Kupelian. As Armenpress reports, East of Byzantium is
Kupelian's recently published graphic novel series and he is looking
to make it into not only a mini-documentary series, but into a major
motion picture. East of Byzantium spans 150 years of Armenian history
starting at 301 A.D. when Armenia became the first Christian state in
history. Persia and the Roman Empire were warring with one another and
between this collision is Armenia," said Kupelian. Emperor Diocletian
sent an exiled Armenian king back to claim Armenia as an ally of Rome.
That changed that region of the world forever. It set a series of
events in motion and altered not only the balance between empires, but
the balance of religions and cultures. The constant bloodshed leads
into the year 451 A.D. and Kupelian's interpretation of St. Vartan
Mamigonian, the most venerated saint in the Armenian Orthodox Church.
I wanted a Vartan that was very different than the one history depicts,
said Kupelian. I wanted a Vartan that I can relate to. I wanted
someone that was in the mud, on the battlefield and was struggling
for his life, because that moment is glory for a warrior.
Kupelian painted his first image of Vartan in New Zealand, on
the set of "Lord of the Rings". Kupelian also dwelled on Nagorno
Karabakh conflict. "Dark Forest in the Mountains" was Kupelian's
first documentary, and the first time he directed a movie. He started
filming the war in the 1990s. Avedis Sangigian is an Armenian-American
veteran from the Nagorno-Karabakh War who attended Kupelian's lecture.
Sangigian fought for a year and a half and was one of many Armenian
Americans that volunteered to fight. Garo Kyahkidjian was a friend
of Sangigian and is a main character in Kupelian's documenatry.
Kyahkidjian died after the war. I watch that documentary everyday,said
Sangigian, in memory of his old friend. Sangigian and Kyahkidjian's
bravery makes them warriors, according to Kupelian. I want our next
generation to see itself in terms of being a warrior,said Kupelian. We
must once again embrace and embody what it means to be a warrior tribe.
From: A. Papazian