NEW YORK (A.W.)—Four prominent Armenian artists who have made their mark on film and literature in North America will converge in New York on Sun., Dec. 9, to take part in a panel discussion titled “Atrocities and Expressions: Pursuing Justice Through Art.”
Organized by Armenian Genocide Justice, an ARF Eastern Region committee, the event features filmmaker Atom Egoyan, novelist Chris Bohjalian, actress Arsinee Khanjian, and filmmaker Eric Nazarian. Armenian Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian will moderate the panel.
The panel discussion is co-sponsored by the AGBU Young Professionals of Greater New York, the National Association for Armenian Studies & Research (NAASR), the AYF-YOARF NY “Hyortik” Chapter, and the NY Armenian Students’ Association.
The event will be held on Dec. 9, at 4 p.m. at Hosack Hall, at the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. It is free and open to the public.
For more information, go to the event’s Facebook page.
Nowadays we have enough film makers to make movies about Armenia .I
think our movie makers should also consentrate of making movies about
Armenia during Tigrane the great or the greatness of Ani during the Baghradounian dinasty of greater Armenia.This would show to the world that Armenia existed from the times of the Hellenic kindoms and Roman empire.
That Armenia was not a country that existed only during the Ottoman empire.
It is very important to make films about Armenia s pre christian era and during
Byzantyum time that would show that Armenia existed before the invations of
the Turkic barbarian tribes in asia minor.
Richard your idea is good and you are right that we have enough film makers. The
question is, who has got the money such a film affords. These historical Hollywood films were expensive at their time already. And Hollywood really should
not produce a film about our history. It could be only a film describing a few days
of Alp Arslans attack against the Bagratunis of Ani and the resulting exodus of Anis citizens towards Cilicia.
I love them. Will try to make it there