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ARMENIAN DOCUMENTARY AWARDED BY ALEXANDRIA, VA FILM FESTIVAL
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Published: Monday November 26, 2012
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Voyage to Amasia, a new documentary film by Randy Bell and Eric V.
Hachikian, won the Special Jury Award at the Alexandria Film Festival
in Alexandria, Virgina this past weekend.
A yearly tribute to cinema, the Alexandria Film Festival presents
feature-length films, documentaries, animation, and shorts by emerging
and established filmmakers to an engaged audience seeking new or
rarely seen films. In its sixth year, the mission of the Alexandria
Film Festival is to promote cinema as an important cultural and
educational asset and market Alexandria as a dynamic venue for
creating, exhibiting, and experiencing film.
Voyage to Amasia will have its West Coast premiere on Saturday,
December 1 at 10:00pm at the Arpa International Film Festival,
where it is screening at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, CA. More
information is at www.itsmyseat.com//events/406705.html. The film
had its world premiere at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto
in December 2011, where it won the prize for Best Documentary. It has
also screened at the 2012 Golden Apricot International Film Festival
(Yerevan, Armenia), the Minneapolis International Film Festival, the
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, and the St. Louis International
Film Festival.
Voyage to Amasia documents composer Eric Hachikian's return to his
ancestral home - Amasia, Turkey - nearly 100 years after Ottoman
soldiers deported his grandmother during the Armenian Genocide. The
film is set to Eric's piano trio of the same name, which provided the
initial inspiration for the documentary. Voyage to Amasia traces a path
through the past, honoring Eric's relationship with his grandmother and
uncovering what her family's life in Turkey might have been like. It
also explores how the events of nearly a century ago continue to
strain the relationship between Armenians and Turks today.
Inspired by one family's story, the filmmakers embark on their own
journey in the hopes of finding a greater understanding between two
peoples still at odds. More information on the film can be found
at www.voyagetoamasia.com.
Randy Bell is a Washington, DC-based independent filmmaker. His
documentary films, which explore subjects as diverse as American
popular music, mid-century European modernist architecture, and
the AIDS orphan crisis in Kenya, have won awards from the Cleveland
International Film Festival, the New England Film and Video Festival,
and the Ivy Film Festival. He received his Bachelor of Arts from
Harvard University in 2000, and his Master in Public Policy from the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2010.
Eric V. Hachikian is an Armenian-American composer whose music has
been hailed by the New York Times as "lovely and original." His
compositions and orchestrations can be heard in a variety of
major motion pictures, network television shows, and national and
international ad campaigns. They have been performed at New York's
Carnegie Hall, at Boston's Symphony Hall, at The Getty in Los Angeles,
and Off-Broadway in New York City. A classically-trained composer,
as well as a self-taught DJ and perpetual student of world music,
Eric's musical style has no boundaries, and his multi-genre interests
result in a unique and personal sound.
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2012-11-26-armenian-documentary-awarded-by-alexandria-va-film-festival-View
Published: Monday November 26, 2012
Related Articles
Zohrab Center and NY ASA to present Voyage to Amasia
Voyage to Amasia, a new documentary film by Randy Bell and Eric V.
Hachikian, won the Special Jury Award at the Alexandria Film Festival
in Alexandria, Virgina this past weekend.
A yearly tribute to cinema, the Alexandria Film Festival presents
feature-length films, documentaries, animation, and shorts by emerging
and established filmmakers to an engaged audience seeking new or
rarely seen films. In its sixth year, the mission of the Alexandria
Film Festival is to promote cinema as an important cultural and
educational asset and market Alexandria as a dynamic venue for
creating, exhibiting, and experiencing film.
Voyage to Amasia will have its West Coast premiere on Saturday,
December 1 at 10:00pm at the Arpa International Film Festival,
where it is screening at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, CA. More
information is at www.itsmyseat.com//events/406705.html. The film
had its world premiere at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto
in December 2011, where it won the prize for Best Documentary. It has
also screened at the 2012 Golden Apricot International Film Festival
(Yerevan, Armenia), the Minneapolis International Film Festival, the
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, and the St. Louis International
Film Festival.
Voyage to Amasia documents composer Eric Hachikian's return to his
ancestral home - Amasia, Turkey - nearly 100 years after Ottoman
soldiers deported his grandmother during the Armenian Genocide. The
film is set to Eric's piano trio of the same name, which provided the
initial inspiration for the documentary. Voyage to Amasia traces a path
through the past, honoring Eric's relationship with his grandmother and
uncovering what her family's life in Turkey might have been like. It
also explores how the events of nearly a century ago continue to
strain the relationship between Armenians and Turks today.
Inspired by one family's story, the filmmakers embark on their own
journey in the hopes of finding a greater understanding between two
peoples still at odds. More information on the film can be found
at www.voyagetoamasia.com.
Randy Bell is a Washington, DC-based independent filmmaker. His
documentary films, which explore subjects as diverse as American
popular music, mid-century European modernist architecture, and
the AIDS orphan crisis in Kenya, have won awards from the Cleveland
International Film Festival, the New England Film and Video Festival,
and the Ivy Film Festival. He received his Bachelor of Arts from
Harvard University in 2000, and his Master in Public Policy from the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2010.
Eric V. Hachikian is an Armenian-American composer whose music has
been hailed by the New York Times as "lovely and original." His
compositions and orchestrations can be heard in a variety of
major motion pictures, network television shows, and national and
international ad campaigns. They have been performed at New York's
Carnegie Hall, at Boston's Symphony Hall, at The Getty in Los Angeles,
and Off-Broadway in New York City. A classically-trained composer,
as well as a self-taught DJ and perpetual student of world music,
Eric's musical style has no boundaries, and his multi-genre interests
result in a unique and personal sound.