ANTI-GENOCIDE DOCUMENTARY ‘SCREAMERS’ TO BE SCREENED ON CAPITOL HILL
ArmRadio.am
10.01.2007 15:20
SCREAMERS, the gripping documentary about the multi-platinum,
Grammy-award winning band "System Of A Down’s" campaign to end the
cycle of genocide, will be screened before a Congressional audience
on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, January 17th, reported the Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA).
The evening’s program – which is being hosted by Congressmen Adam
Schiff (D-CA) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Save Darfur, the ANCA
Endowment, and the Raffy Manoukian Charity – will start with a 6:30
pm reception, continue with a 7:30 pm screening, and conclude with
a discussion with the film’s director Carla Garapedian and special
guests. It will take place in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of
the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress.
"SCREAMERS is about exposing the denial of all genocide, Armenia,
the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, the Iraqi Kurds and
the current horror in Darfur," said Garapedian. "It is about making
sure the same critical message George Clooney and Don Cheadle are
‘screaming’ about is heard, that these atrocities ‘never happen
again.’ And I believe, it is this generation, the ‘screamers’,
who will make sure all genocide is recognized and ends, because
‘screamers’ will no longer tolerate or accept previous generations
of politicians and humanitarians who have so miserably failed them."
SCREAMERS debuted at the American Film Institute Film Festival on
November 2nd and won the coveted AFI Audience Award. On hand for the
opening were Garapedian, "System Of A Down" band members Serj Tankian,
John Dolmayan and Shavo Odadjian, producers Pete McAlevey and Tim
Swain, sponsor Raffy Manoukian of the Raffy Manoukian Charity and a
host of genocide recognition and prevention activists from the ANCA,
Save Darfur, and other groups.
SCREAMERS is a production of MG2 productions in association with BBC
Television and The Raffi Manoukian Charity. Garapedian, a veteran
reporter who has made a career of covering the most difficult stories,
from Chechenya to repression in Afghanistan, follows the European
tour of "System Of A Down" and their ongoing efforts, through music
and activism, to raise awareness about denial of all genocide, tracing
the band members’ own personal journey of their grandparents surviving
the Armenian Genocide and its legacy of a century of atrocities. The
film, distributed by Maya Entertainment, is currently playing in
the Los Angeles area and will open on January 26th in New York City,
Washington, DC, Boston, Chicago and Detroit.