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Carla Garapedian (American-Armenian: Քարլա Կարապետյան, British) is a filmmaker, director, writer and broadcaster. She directed Children of the Secret State about North Korea and was an anchor for BBC World News. After leaving BBC World, she directed Dying for the President" about Chechnya, Lifting the Veil, about women in Afghanistan, Iran Undercover (Forbidden Iran for PBS Frontline World) and My Friend the Mercenary about the coup in Equatorial Guinea. Her feature, Screamers, was theatrically released in the U.S. in December 2006 and early 2007, and was on Newsweek's pick of non-fiction films for 2006/7. The Independent called it "powerful" and Larry King for CNN described it as "a brilliant film. Everyone should see it." The New York Times deemed it "invigorating and articulate," while the Los Angeles Times called it "eye-opening." "Carla Garapedian is a screamer, too," said the Washington Post.
Thursday, May 22, 2014, at UCI School of Humanities, The Vahe & Armine Meghrouni Lecture Series in Armenian Studies, presents: " How 'Screamers' and System of a Down Widened the Parameters of Public Debate About the Armenian Genocide " with CARLA GARAPEDIAN, Ph. D., Documentary Film Director. Carla Garapedian is a documentary filmmaker. She directed "Children of the Secret State" about North Korea and was an anchor for BBC World News Carla Garapedian has received numerous awards for her piercing documentaries. In 2006 "Screamers," cocreated and produced by Peter McAlevey shared the American Film Institute Audience Award for Best Picture. On February 27, 2009, AGBU honored Garapedian with GenNext's "Community Hero award." Garapedian accepted the award for her film Screamers, a criticall...
Carla Garapedian Interview Armenian Radio NJ
On December 9, 2011, Nareg Hartounian, founder of Naregatsi Art Institute and director of GH Storage Enterprises LTD, was detained and put under custody on charges of tax evasion upon a verdict of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts of Yerevan, Armenia. Nareg Hartounian was detained together with his colleagues Ani Mnatsakanyan, deputy director of GH Storage Enterprises LTD, and Artur Galstyan, accountant of GH Storage Enterprises LTD. The arrest took place without substantial evidence and with severe violations of the RA Criminal Code; a fact that spurred a furious wave of public protest and disapproval throughout Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora around the world. Under the strain of massive public pressure, the court aborted their dec...
Interview with Screamers Director Carla Garapedian on Final Cut with host, Marios Georgiou on Plus TV station. Aired April 7, 2009 in Cyprus
SCREAMERS, A documentary about genocide which features System Of A Down, was released on DVD on April 20. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Carla Garapedian, traces the history of genocide and genocide denial through the atrocities in Armenia, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur. To coincide with the film's release, Screamers will also be screened by Amnesty International at their Human Rights Centre in London on April 21 and will be presented by vocalist Serj Tankian the following day at Oxford University. "Screamers has caused a strong emotive response everywhere that it's been released," Tankian tells Kerrang!. "I'm looking forward to partaking in the Amnesty Int'l and Oxford University panels when I come over to the UK in April." For more information on the film...
The San Joaquin Valley PBS, ValleyPBS, will present two special nights of Armenian-focused programming featuring back-to-back documentaries by filmmaker Hagop Goudsouzian on Tuesday, August 9; on Friday, August 12 feature film Screamers by director Carla Garapedian will air featuring the band "System Of A Down," all to highlight the rich culture, music and history of the local Armenian community during this special time of year—the holy celebration of the Assumption of St. Mary and the Blessing of the Grapes. ValleyPBS is broadcast on 18.1 over the air, Cable channel 8, Comcast HD 708, and Dish, U-verse and Direct TV channel 18. On August 9, local news anchor and television personality Stefani Booroojian, along with Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Director of the Armenian Studies Program a...
Michael Hagopian conducted almost all of the interviews in the Armenian Genocide Testimony collection. After he died in December 2010, the Armenian Film Foundation received a request to interview Almas Boghosian, in Whitinsville, Massachusetts. Her granddaughter Taline had interviewed her in 2000, but her family wanted Almas to be interviewed again for this collection. I called a cameraman I knew from my previous work with the BBC and we went to Almas’ house, and met Almas’ grandson Bruce Boghosian and his wife, Laura. Almas was in good spirits, although she had a cough and her hearing aid battery was weak. So I had to speak loudly during the interview. Afterwards, Bruce and Laura told me the 2000 interview was more complete, although in comparing the two interview transcripts, the st...