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Voyage to Amasia' to screen in New Jersey
09:59 15.05.2013
Voyage to Amasia, a new documentary film by Randy Bell and Eric V.
Hachikian, will screen in New Jersey on Sunday, May 19th at the Sts.
Vartanantz Armenian Church, the Armenian National Committee of America
informs.
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 subsequently won the Special Jury Award at the Alexandria Film
Festival in Alexandria, Virginia in 2012. It has also screened at
numerous film festivals around the United States, at the Golden
Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan, Armenia, and in Sydney, Australia.
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.
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.armradio.am/en/2013/05/15/httpwww-armradio-amenwp-adminpost-new-phpvoyage-to-amasia-to-screen-in-new-jersey/
From: A. Papazian
09:59 15.05.2013
Voyage to Amasia, a new documentary film by Randy Bell and Eric V.
Hachikian, will screen in New Jersey on Sunday, May 19th at the Sts.
Vartanantz Armenian Church, the Armenian National Committee of America
informs.
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 subsequently won the Special Jury Award at the Alexandria Film
Festival in Alexandria, Virginia in 2012. It has also screened at
numerous film festivals around the United States, at the Golden
Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan, Armenia, and in Sydney, Australia.
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.
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.armradio.am/en/2013/05/15/httpwww-armradio-amenwp-adminpost-new-phpvoyage-to-amasia-to-screen-in-new-jersey/
From: A. Papazian