COCONUT CREEK, Fla.– Armenoid Productions has announced that its 2016 multi-award-winning Women of 1915 feature-length documentary film is slated to stream on Amazon Video in observance of International Women’s Day on March 8th, 2021. This […]
Author’s note: Having written this essay just before the Artsakh War, my goal was to write about these films and stories as a way to connect our past to our future in a forward thinking […]
We seem to have the political will at the moment (even if only for a very brief moment) to address social inequities and allow justice and fairness to guide our decisions. One can fairly hope […]
Filmmaker Arman Nshanian has unlocked a critical and tragic period in Armenian history with his homage to musical pioneer Komitas in his directorial debut Songs of Solomon. “The two massacres leading to the genocide are […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Amidst a time of war, Armenia has proudly announced that Arman Nshanian’s visually arresting and emotionally stirring historical drama Songs of Solomon is its official submission to the 93rd Academy Awards […]
PHILADELPHIA, Penn./DETROIT, Mich.– Generations of Americans of Armenian descent have had to reckon with the aftermath of a genocide that nearly annihilated their people. Their stories have a new urgency in light of the recent […]
Cultural Impact Foundation (CIF) is thrilled to announce that its first project, Bloodless: The Path to Democracy, commissioned to multiple award-winning filmmaker Bared Maronian about the pivotal events that led to Armenia’s Velvet Revolution, is the […]
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—“The Attempt”—a short film written and directed by Santa Monica College (SMC) film student Daniel Despart—has been accepted into The 23rd American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase during the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. SMC is the only community college and one […]
In the documentary “100 Years from Home,” questions chart Lilit Pilikian and Jared White’s journey across the globe. “How do we get over these wounds?” Pilikian asks her mother over the phone, sitting in the […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Lilit Pilikian’s parents would’ve never met, and a new family and generation would’ve never formed, had her ancestors not been targeted and forced to flee their homeland during the Armenian Genocide […]
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