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Starz acquires Armenian Genocide documentary “Intent to Destroy”

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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.

Screening of Award-Winning Director Joe Berlinger’s “Intent to Destroy”

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Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian presents:

Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian presents:

FREE Admission

➢ Light food and refreshments will be served

➢ Free parking on Ethel Ave. and Hatteras St.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Program: 7:15PM-7:30PM

Movie: 7:30PM – 9:30PM

Los Angeles Valley College

Monarch Hall

5800 Fulton Avenue, Valley Glen, CA 91401

To RSVP or for more information:

Call Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian at (818) 376-4246

or

Email: carolyne.hogikyan@asm.ca.gov

Co-sponsored by Los Angeles Valley College & Armenian Assembly of America

INTENT TO DESTROY Wednesday, February 21, 2018 7:30 pm Fresno IMAX Cinema Riverpa

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By Vanoush Khatchaturyan,

The Charlie Keyan Armenian Community School, in conjunction with the Knights and Daughters of Vartan (Fresno) is proud to bring this movie to Fresno. “Intent to Destroy,” by veteran documentarian Joe Berlinger, is an interesting hybrid. It’s partly an account of the Armenian Genocide and the ongoing efforts of the Turkish government to deny it, and partly a look at attempts to make films about the killings, including the 2016 drama “The Promise.” Tell your friends, tell your family, get your tickets (I got mine) and help support this movie, which is part of the overall campaign of Armenian Genocide justice.

Marshall is your host, this is a 1 night only screening of INTENT TO DESTROY Wednesday, February 21, 2018 @ 7:30 pm, we have to sell 36 more tickets in order for the Imax Cinema at Riverpark to hold the theather.  PLEASE ORDER TODAY and insure your seats its limited seating of 120  
 

 

How to See Intent to Destroy in Theaters

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Help us bring Intent to Destroy to your city

We are using a new platform called Theatrical On Demand® to release Intent To Destroyin movie theaters across the United States this fall. This means that Intent To Destroy will come to your city only if someone signs up to host a screening and enough tickets are reserved. This also means everyone has the chance to experience this film on the big screen.

Hosting a screening is FREE and EASY, we just need you to sign up to become a Movie Captain and help us spread the word.

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Click the REQUEST A SCREENING Button and sign up to become the Movie Captain of a screening at your local movie theater. This will take you to the Theatrical On Demand® screening request form. Filling out the form takes about five minutes and costs nothing. Once you submit the completed form you will receive a confirmation email from Gathr Films and your screening will be on its way.

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REMEMBER: Theatrical On Demand® screenings only happen if a minimum number of people reserve their tickets online in advance. This means you can’t wait until the night of the showing to get your tickets.

“Intent to Destroy” Offers a Meditative History of the Armenian Genocide

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Intent to Destroy

Intent to Destroy

It’s a movie about a historical crime, but it’s also a movie about another movie,

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In Intent to Destroy, documentarian Joe Berlinger attempts to assemble a sort of meditative history of the Armenian genocide and its century-long cover-up by the Turkish government out of a curious source: behind-the-scenes footage of the production of Terry George’s film The Promise, a sweeping historical saga with movie stars and first-rate production values, financed independently and released in the spring of 2017.

As a film, The Promise is interesting for its subject and the struggle to get it made, rather than its own drama or technique; Intent to Destroy uses The Promise as something of a guide, as our entree into the history, as if the filmmakers assume that we need to see Oscar Isaac to care about the extermination of millions. “There’s a scene in the movie where Christian Bale goes and attempts to take pictures of what’s happening to the Armenians,” one of the many interviewees tells us, his words illustrated with a clip from The Promise. He continues, “In the real world, it was forbidden to take pictures of anything.” That leads to an enlightening discussion of the practicalities of the Ottoman Empire’s mass murder of Armenians.

Intent to Destroy sometimes plays like a DVD extra that might have accompanied The Promise, but it does have value of its own in its interviews with historians, philosophers, and filmmakers and its vintage photos and footage. Even that footage of the shooting of The Promise bears fruit when Armenian actors in the cast speak to Berlinger’s cameras and to one another about their families’ experience during the long-ago massacres, the hundred-year diaspora that followed, and the terrible success of Turkey’s efforts to pretend it all never happened. In these moments, we’re watching artists not just tell their own vital stories but consider, with some awe, the significance of their finally having the opportunity to do so.

Intent to Destroy
Directed by Joe Berlinger
Abramorama
Opens November 10, Village East Cinema

Source: https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/11/08/intent-to-destroy-offers-a-meditative-history-of-the-armenian-genocide/

Watch Wally Sarkeesian Interview Joe Berlinger Documentary ‘Intent to Destroy’ examines Armenian genocide Video

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Joe Berlinger’s Armenian Genocide Film ‘Intent To Destroy’

Hollywood: Like the recent “Architects of Denial,” the documentary “Intent to Destroy” is another strong look at how an estimated 1.5 million Christian Armenians were murdered between 1915 and 1918 by the Ottoman Empire (which became the modern Republic of Turkey), and why, a century later, the Turkish government still does not formally accept the facts of this heinous massacre nor the use of the word “genocide.”

Director Joe Berlinger uniquely explores this complex, disturbing issue by embedding with the production of “The Promise,” Terry George’s sweeping romantic drama set against the events of the Armenian genocide. Berlinger then uses scenes, off-camera bits and on-set chats (with director George, producer Mike Medavoy and crew members) from that late-2015 shoot to help create a highly dimensional survey of what Armenians often call “The Great Crime.” (“The Promise,” which starred Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale, opened in April to mixed reviews and disappointing grosses.)

The documentary, divided into three chapters (“Death,” “Denial,” “Depiction”), also features a wealth of archival footage and photos, plus interviews with actor-writer Eric Bogosian, former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans, director Atom Egoyan (“Ararat”), and an array of authors and professors, all of which adds effective insight into the genocide, its longtime cultural and geopolitical ramifications, and America’s thorny place in the matter. It’s a masterful effort.

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

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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.

INTENT TO DESTROY, Village East Cinema Friday Nov, 10 New York, NY

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VILLAGE EAST CINEMA, INTENT TO DESTROY

Village East Cinema: Q&A Friday 11/10 following the 7:00pm show with Director Joe Berlinger

Academy Award nominated director Joe Berlinger embeds himself on the epic film set of Terry George’s THE PROMISE 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. 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

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Review: ‘Intent to Destroy’ Shows That the Armenian Past Is Not Over

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‘Intent to Destroy’

coming soon Wally Sarkeesian Interview Joe Berlinger, director ‘Intent to Destroy’

(NYtimes) A level-headed documentary lies behind the hot-blooded title of “Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction.” While there may be no completely dispassionate way to discuss its topic — the Armenian genocide — the film’s balance of emotion and composure helps make its stories even stronger.

Some 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks in the early part of the 20th century. What should be an accepted fact remains a provocative topic, as the Turkish government continues to ignore or deny the events and, as it has for a century, coerce businesses and push other governments to do the same.

Joe Berlinger, the director, uses old footage of survivors and insights from historians to provide an overview of the crimes. He also embeds himself with the cast and crew of “The Promise,” a recent fictional film set around 1915 that explores the fighting and mass killings. Mr. Berlinger’s plan is smart as well as symbolic — evidence shows that the Turkish government has often pressured studios into shelving movies about the genocide.

Discussions on the film set are intertwined with historical analysis, and there are explorations of crowd psychology, revisionism and German cooperation with the Ottoman Turks; it’s no stretch to see how the massacre of Armenians helped lay groundwork for the Holocaust.

At its core, “Intent to Destroy” is a call to remember the victims, both for their sake and for our own. “If you want to understand Yugoslavia, if you want to understand Rwanda, if you want to understand any other mass atrocity [that] is happening today, you should really look into the Armenian genocide,” one scholar says near the end of the documentary. “History is not in the past.”

Armenian Genocide documentary “intent to destroy” to screen in New York and Los Angeles

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Armenian Genocide documentary Intent to Destroy

Armenian Genocide documentary Intent to Destroy

Celebrated Academy Award nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s Armenian Genocide documentary Intent to Destroy will be screened in New York and Los Angeles starting from November 10, System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian said in a Twitter post.

The powerful documentary emerged as one of the most critically acclaimed films at this year’s Tribeca and Hot Docs Film Festivals.

Berlinger’s thirteenth feature-length documentary embeds with an historic feature film on the set of Terry George’s The Promise as a powerful lens through which to explore the reality of the Armenian genocide and its subsequent campaign of denial and Hollywood censorship.

Through discussions with activists, historians, scholars and cast members from The Promise, Intent To Destroy  shows the tangled web of denial, responsibility and truth in the struggle to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Serj Tankian has composed the music for the film.