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French film about the Armenian Genocide starring Gerard Darmon and Samy Naceri

April 3, 2018 By administrator

French film about the Armenian Genocide

French film about the Armenian Genocide

Director Artak Igityan is at the moment shooting the film “Anatolian History” in France, which is based on the novel “Where wild roses blossom: Anatolian history” by Mark Aren (born Karen Margaryan). The composer of the film is a French musical composer Michel Legrand, Allinnet.info reports.

“Anatolian History” stars such renowned French actors as Samy Naceri (known for his main role in the French comedy franchise “Taxi”), Gerard Darmon, and Hermine Stepanyan in the leading female role. Stepanyan shared her yet scarce experience of working with the director:

“I met director Artak Igityan during the premiere of the film ”Dawn of the Van sea’. We didn’t manage to chat too much, I only congratulated him and left. Two years later, we met again at the “Moscow” cinema in Yerevan at the premiere of another film. This time, Igityan was with his wife Anna. I approached them and said that I loved the film. Artak’s wife looked at me and said: ‘Artak, she is an excellent character.’ Thus, began a conversation about the film, as well as some other topics, Stepanyan recalled.

“Of course, I have seen films starring Darmon and Naceri, and after I realized that we will be playing in the same film, I began to watch their every single movie and read their interviews to learn more about them. During the shooting, I will get acquainted with them better because of easier direct communication,” said Stepanyan, and then added that the shooting is planned for 2018.

The shooting of the film will start in 2018.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: armenian genocide, Film, French

Starz acquires Armenian Genocide documentary “Intent to Destroy”

March 9, 2018 By administrator

 Intent to Destroy

Intent to Destroy

Starz, an American entertainment company that owns U.S. pay television channels, has acquired the Armenian Genocide film “Intent to Destroy” along with seven other exclusive first-run documentaries, Deadline reports.

Director Joe Berlinger embeds himself on the epic film set of Terry George’s The Promise (2016) to take an unwavering look at the Armenian Genocide. Historians, scholars and filmmakers come together in Berlinger’s cinematic exploration of the tangled web of responsibility that has driven a century of denial by the Turkish government and its strategic allies.

Intent to Destroy (2017) is a timely reckoning with the large-scale suppression of a historical tragedy. Berlinger confronts the fraught task of shedding light on the Armenian Genocide – whose witnesses and descendants are still fighting to be officially acknowledged as such by the international community – how it was carried out during World War I as the reign of the Ottoman Empire drew to a close, and how it laid the groundwork for the genocides that followed.

“We are acquiring an eclectic slate of documentaries that not only strategically align with Starz Original series but also present engaging subjects, provocative conflicts and authentic storytelling,” said C. Brett Marottoli, Head of Program Acquisitions for Starz.

“Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction”  will premiere on April 23, 2018.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: armenian genocide, Film, Intent To Destroy

Watch live from Paris French-Armenian filmmaker Arnaud Khayadjanian Speak to Wally Sarkeesian readying movie about Artsakh

February 28, 2018 By administrator

Friday March, 2 10:00 AM Live from Paris on GagruleLive https://facebook.com/gagrulepage

French-Armenian film director Arnaud Khayadjanian is readying a feature drama about Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), its people, the rhythm of life and much more.

Titled “Artsakh”, the movie centers on universal stories, inspired by true events, with Khayadjanian paying homage to Karabakh, an emerging country.

Sometimes funny, sometimes dramatic, “Artsakh” addresses a variety of themes such as friendship, patriotism, youth, culture, family.

“It is a ‘hyperlink movie’ which shows many characters (around 20) telling several little stories”,

In the film, the people of Karabakh introduce themselves to the world through endearing characters, the film’s description on Kickstarter says.

 

ARNAUD KHAYADJANIAN BIOGRAPHY In 2014, Arnaud Khayadjanian adapted a French play by Laura Desprein into a short film entitled “BAD GIRL” which has been viewed 1.3 million times by streaming. “BAD GIRL” has been selected in 23 international festivals including Oscar Qualifying UPPSALA and it won both Vimeo Prize and Jury Prize in Sundance Channel Contest. In September 2015, Arnaud Khayadjanian has released “STONY PATHS”,

A documentary inspired by the story of his Armenian great-grandparents. The film was honored by the French critics and was selected in 24 international festivals. “STONY PATHS” received the Jury Prize from Ismailia Festival in Egypt, the Best Documentary Prize in Yerevan Film Festival, and it was broadcasted on Armenian Shant TV. Last summer, Arnaud Khayadjanian has directed his second documentary “WE ARE OUR MOUNTAINS” produced bay Stanoz Films about the unknown and extraordinary people of Artsakh.

In September 2017, Arnaud Khayadjanian’s new short film “DEAF HEARTS”, produced by Envie de Tempête is broadcasting on TV channel ARTE. Currently, he is developing “NO MORE HEROES” a short film produced by Good Fortune about French “greasers” written with Maïté Sonnet.

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: ARNAUD KHAYADJANIAN, Artsakh, Film

FilmMaker Arnaud Khayadjanian at GagruleLive “A movie about Nagorno-Karabakh” March 2, 2018

February 26, 2018 By administrator

ARNAUD KHAYADJANIAN

Mark your calendar Friday March 2, 2018 Interview a filmmaker ARNAUD KHAYADJANIAN A movie about Nagorno-Karabakh 10:00 AM Pacific time

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SYNOPSIS

Through universal and unifying stories, inspired by true stories, Arnaud Khayadjanian pays homage to Nagorno-Karabakh, an emerging country. ARTSAKH, sometimes funny, sometimes dramatic, addresses a wide variety of themes such as friendship, patriotism, youth, culture, family. The Nagorno-Karabakh people present themselves to the world – through endearing characters – under a modern, courageous and dynamic face.

DIRECTOR’S MOTIVATIONS

To the world, Nagorno-Karabakh would not exist, it would be an imaginary territory, a cloudless landscape, a fiction in the minds of its inhabitants. Yet, I did meet that so-called faceless country, a thousand-faceted people, bereaved by wars and orphaned by liberty, but still standing and heroic. Two years after Les Chemins Arides (Best Documentary Award in Yerevan), I had the immense pride to realize We Are Our Mountains. I was so fascinated by my meeting with the people and landscapes from Nagorno-Karabakh, that I wrote this project. Through this film, ARTSAKH, I wish to introduce this country to an international audience.

Risks and challenges

In Nagorno-Karabakh, many benefits in terms of image are planned. The film will be broadcast in cinemas in France and Armenia, on television channels, on the Internet, by DVD, at international festivals. Social and economic benefits are also expected thanks to the active participation of Nagorno-Karabakh people (actors, extras, technicians, translators); as well as expenses incurred in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh (hotel, meals, equipment, logistics, etc.)

ARNAUD KHAYADJANIAN BIOGRAPHY
In 2014, Arnaud Khayadjanian adapted a French play by Laura Desprein into a short film entitled “BAD GIRL” which has been viewed 1.3 million times by streaming. “BAD GIRL” has been selected in 23 international festivals including Oscar Qualifying UPPSALA and it won both Vimeo Prize and Jury Prize in Sundance Channel Contest. In September 2015, Arnaud Khayadjanian has released “STONY PATHS”, a documentary inspired by the story of his Armenian great-grandparents.
The film was honored by the French critics and was selected in 24 international festivals. “STONY PATHS” received the Jury Prize from Ismailia Festival in Egypt, the Best Documentary Prize in Yerevan Film Festival, and it was broadcasted on Armenian Shant TV.
Last summer, Arnaud Khayadjanian has directed his second documentary “WE ARE OUR MOUNTAINS” produced bay Stanoz Films about the unknown and extraordinary people of Artsakh. In September 2017, Arnaud Khayadjanian’s new short film “DEAF HEARTS”, produced by Envie de Tempête is broadcasting on TV channel ARTE. Currently, he is developing “NO MORE HEROES” a short film produced by Good Fortune about French “greasers” written with Maïté Sonnet.
To Support Arnaud Khayadjanian visit Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1268609988/artsakh

Filed Under: Events, Interviews, News Tagged With: ARNAUD KHAYADJANIAN, Artsakh, Film

How Chris Cornell Found Inspiration for His Song From Armenian Genocide Film ‘The Promise’

November 18, 2017 By administrator

Even though the Armenian genocide depicted in Open Road’s The Promise took place more than 100 years ago, when Chris Cornell wrote the searing end-title theme, he wanted to bring awareness to similar atrocities going on today.

“Rather than people thinking, ‘Wow, what a horrendous thing that happened a century ago,’ I’d love for them to realize that it is happening now and the fact that the warning signs are always the same leading up to a genocide,” said the late Soundgarden singer in an interview a few weeks before his May 2017 death and shortly before the film, starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac, opened.

However, when Cornell wrote “The Promise,” musically he stayed rooted in the past. “That was a conundrum I hadn’t dealt with before. I couldn’t have any popular music references that are natural to me” like Led Zeppelin or The Beatles, he said. He also didn’t want to write a strictly period piece tied to the early 1900s, using only instruments that existed in Armenia, “because the song needed to do a bigger job, it shouldn’t be confined by geography or time.” He settled on acoustic guitar, piano, tympanis and strings, with orchestration by the late Grammy-winning arranger Paul Buckmaster.

Lyrically, Cornell, who earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2012 for “The Keeper” from Machine Gun Preacher, drew from The Promise writer-director Terry George’s script and rough edits of the film, as well as research – reading and watching documentaries – about the genocide. He told the story from the perspective of a young man singing to a photo of his father or grandfather about the inspiration they had provided by persevering through horrendous acts. Though not Armenian, Cornell also drew upon his wife’s Greek heritage since her ancestors were affected by the same World War I genocide that led to the death of 1.5 million Armenians.

Cornell, who donated proceeds from the song to the International Rescue Committee, an organization that provides assistance to those fleeing conflict, wanted to leave viewers with a sense of hope. “The hope was built into the story,” he said. “To me, the challenge was being able to distill it in a couple of verses and a chorus.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: armenian genocide, Chris Cornell, Film, The Promise

Cher calls for support for Joe Berlinger’s “Intent to Destroy”

November 10, 2017 By administrator

Cher is calling for support for Joe Berlinger’s Armenian Genocide documentary “Intent to Destroy” which is opening in theaters in Los Angeles and New York on Friday, November 10.

“The award winning @intenttodestroy about the Armenian Genocide produced by my dear friend @esrailian is in theaters in LA & NY tomorrow. Please support and #KeepThePromise!” the Armenian-American pop legend said in a tweet.

The documentary has received positive reviews from the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter and a host of other magazines and media outlets.

Filed Under: Events, Genocide, News Tagged With: Cher, Film, Intent To Destroy, support

How Has Armenian Identity Lived on After the Genocide? A Local Filmmaker Looks to the Arts

November 3, 2017 By administrator

Los Angeles–based photographer Ara Oshagan (seen here behind the camera) is one of the Armenian-American artists featured in Echoes of Survival.

Liz Ohanesian,

Several years ago, when Armenians across the globe were preparing to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the genocide that created diasporan communities from the Americas to the Middle East, Avo John Kambourian thought about what he could add to the conversation.

It wasn’t lost on Kambourian that amongst those killed on April 24, 1915, the day recognized as the start of the Armenian Genocide, were intellectuals and artists. “We talk about the 1.5 million [people killed during the Genocide],” says the Sherman Oaks–based filmmaker inside a Little Tokyo coffeehouse, “but we don’t talk about the individual people and what they did, the innovators and what they achieved and what sort of cultural loss came out of it.”

Kambourian wasn’t just interested in the stories of individuals from the past. He started thinking about artists of Armenian heritage who live today and who he says are “underrepresented.” So, he opted to focus on present-day Armenian-American artists who have woven pieces of tradition and history into their work. The result is Echoes of Survival, a series of five documentary shorts that will screen in full at Arpa International Film Festival on November 4.

Arpa, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, isn’t specifically an Armenian film festival, but a significant amount of its offerings come either from the country of Armenia or from filmmakers in the diaspora. “Twenty years ago, there weren’t really a lot of platforms for these filmmakers,” says Haig Boyadjian, executive director of the Arpa Foundation for Film, Music and Art and producer of this year’s festival. “The vision was to give people a platform, not an exclusively Armenian platform but a platform in Hollywood with other international films.”

This year’s offerings include Dalida, a French biopic of the international singing sensation whose life came to a tragic end in 1987; The Heart of Nuba, a documentary that goes inside Sudan’s Nuba Mountains; and Intent to Destroy, a documentary about Armenian Genocide denial and the making of the film The Promise. There are also two films that deal directly with LGBT issues in Armenia, the documentary Listen to Me: Untold Stories Beyond Hatred and the feature Apricot Groves. According to Boyadjian, the festival sought films that make a “social impact,” including movies that look at human rights issues and/or explore identity.

For Kambourian, who was born in the San Fernando Valley to ethnic Armenian parents from Syria, identity and filmmaking intertwine. When he was 20, the filmmaker took a break from college to join the volunteer program Birthright Armenia. In the small country in the Caucasus, he worked for a documentary film studio and taught at an after-school program focusing on photography and film. In 2012, he returned to the country when he was hired to document an art show. He traveled quite a bit, eventually making it into Turkey for the centennial of the Genocide, where he visited places once inhabited by Armenians. Those trips helped shape the work he would do back in the United States.

Echoes of Survival takes viewers into the lives of artists across the United States and looks at how identity has shaped their work. In Chicago, artist Jackie Kazarian uses her grandmother’s lace as a silkscreen for an abstract painting. In New England, Armenian-American musicians gather at a Greek restaurant to jam. In Los Angeles, Ara Oshagan goes through the photographs he has taken within Armenian communities here and abroad.

Oshagan is the grandson of a writer who rounded up with the intellectuals during the Genocide, but managed to escape. “Genocide is a huge break,” he says by phone. “It’s not only a break in life and in the loss of the land …but there’s this huge cultural break, a break in imagination.”

He adds, “The diaspora starts officially with nothing after the Genocide. They have to sort of create something out of completely nothing after the Genocide.”

And so you start over. “In once sense, that is very much a difficult place to start from,” says Oshagan. “It is, also, a point of creativity. A point where now you start mixing with different cultures, different languages, different ways of life.”

Oshagan was born in Beirut. He was still a child when his family left for the U.S. at the start of the Lebanese Civil War and he is currently working on a book focusing on Beirut. He says that much of his work explores the “hybrid identity” that comes with being part of a diaspora. “A lot of my work is about trying to say that there is no one identity, but it’s a constant flux. Identity is a process,” he says. “In your constant shifting between different ways of thinking and living and speaking is where our identity realizes itself.”

Similarly, Kambourian is piecing together the many facets of cultural identity in the vignettes that comprise Echoes of Survival. That’s reflected in the documentary’s title. It’s not about the tragedy, but rather what came out of it. “As bad as it was, there is this silver lining,” he says of the Genocide, “which is us.”

20th annual Arpa International Film Festival, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood; Fri.-Sun., Nov. 3-5; Echoes of Survival screens on Sat., Nov. 4 at 4:30 p.m. arpafilmfestival.com.

http://www.laweekly.com/arts/in-echoes-of-survival-armenian-identity-lives-on-after-the-genocide-through-the-arts-8797173

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Echoes of Survival, Film

Armenian Genocide film “The Promise” screened in Syria

November 2, 2017 By administrator

The Promise in Syria

“The Promise”, a feature film about the Armenian Genocide was screened in Damascus, Syria on Monday, October 31.

The war drama centers on a love story involving a medical student (Oscar Isaac), a journalist (Christian Bale), and the Armenian woman (Charlotte Le Bon) who steals their hearts. All three find themselves grappling with the Ottomans’ decision to begin rounding up and persecuting Armenians during the first genocide of the 20th century.

A number of officials from the Armenian embassy, Syrian parliament members, cultural figures and religious leaders attended the event.

Prior to the screening, ambassador Arshak Poladyan detailed the history of the Armenian Genocide and the Armenophobic policies that the Ottoman Empire was famous for at the time.

Poladyan then drew the attention of those present to Turkey’s anti-Armenian position and the denialist policy, adding, however, that the process of the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide has entered a whole new stage.

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Film, Syria, The Promise

Armenian-language film “Yeva” put on the list of Oscar Best Foreign Film category

October 16, 2017 By administrator

yevaThe Armenian-language film “Yeva” –  a co-production between Armenia and Iran, was included in the preliminary list of the nomination in the best foreign-language film category for the 90th Academy Awards films. As the Cinema Center of Armenia reported on Monday, the list is made of submission from 92 states with six of them included for the first time. Only several of the nominations will be shortlisted for the Award after the jury screenings.

Written and directed by Armenian-Iranian producer Anahit Abad, the feature stars many recognized actors and actresses from Armenia, such as Narine Grigoryan, Shant Hovhannisyan, Marjan Avetisyan, Rozi Avetisyan, Sergey Tovmasyan, Vrezh Qasuni, Tigran Davtyan, Nanor Petrosyan, Evelina Adamyan, Marat Davtyan, others.

The film production was financed by National Cinema Center of Armenia and Farabi Cinema Foundation.
The movie synopsis is centered on Yeva –  a young woman, who escapes her influential in-laws with her daughter Nareh, after her husband’s tragic death and takes refuge in one of the villages of Karabakh, Armenia…Yeva is a complete stranger in this village and is obliged to live her daily life in disguise.

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Armenian language, Film, oscar, yeva

Intent to Destroy Film Screening, UCLA School of Law

October 9, 2017 By administrator

Pulling back the curtain on Genocide censorship in Hollywood due to U.S. government pressure to appease a strategic ally, Intent To Destroy embeds with a historic feature production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century.

Joe Berlinger’s thirteenth feature documentary film captures the cinematic and political challenges of producing a historically meaningful, big-budget feature film in an environment rife with political suppression and threats of retaliation. By intertwining these three separate threads – the modern day production of The Promise, the history of the Genocide and the century of international repression – Intent To Destroy coalesces to provide a comprehensive view on the atrocities of 1915 to 1923 and their resounding aftermath right up until the present day.

As Elie Wiesel has so eloquently stated, the final stage of Genocide is denial. Intent to Destroy pulls back the curtain of political resistance and historical amnesia to finally present a more complete account of Armenia – the Genocide, its delayed recognition and a nearly forgotten history of suffering and heroism in the hope of inspiring a collective sense of international justice and humanity.

For more information on the film, please visit Intent to Destroy’s webage.

Screening this Thursday, October 12, 5:30pm, at UCLA School of Law, 385 Charles. E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles CA 90095.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intent-to-destroy-film-screening-registration-38415364389

 

Filed Under: Events, Genocide, News Tagged With: destroy, Film, Intent

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