The River Ran Red - Film screening - 4/27 - SF Public Library
for a documentary film and presentation in commemoration of the
95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
The River Ran Red
with Michael J. Hagopian, in Person
Winner of the Best International Historical Documentary of the New York International Film and Video Festival and Second Place (History and Biography) of the U.S. International Film and Video Festival
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
6:00 pm (promptly)
San Francisco Public Library
Koret Auditorium, Lower Level,
(100 Larkin Street at Grove)
Free Admission
The River Ran Red is the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400 testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity, taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning deserts of Syria... and to the final resting place of those whose blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates
About Michael J. Hagopian:
In summer of 1915, when the Turkish soldiers rampaged through the town of Kharbert, Michael J. Hagopian's mother hid her baby in a mulberry bush and prayed to God that the Turkish soldiers would not find him. Mother and baby survived, and eventually made it to Fresno, California. Hagopian received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and after receiving a doctorate in international relations from Harvard University, he went into cinema and founded the Atlantis Films Company, which produced over fifty documentary films on ethnic minorities and foreign lands. He won critical acclaim, including two Emmys for the writing and production of The Forgotten Genocide, the first full-length feature on the Armenian Genocide, that encompassed nearly 400 witness interviews and twenty years of research. In 1979, Hagopian founded the non-profit Armenian Film Foundation dedicated to preserving the visual and personal histories of the witnesses to the first genocide of the 20th century.
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