"SCREAMERS" TO BE SCREENED IN U.S. CONGRESS TODAY

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.01.2007 14:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "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 today, as earlier was reported the Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA). "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 film director Carla 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."

"Adolph Hitler used the Armenian Genocide as a blueprint for the
Holocaust, silencing the potential reservations of his generals
by asking the chilling question: ‘Who, after all, speaks today of
the annihilation of the Armenians,’" said ANCA Executive Director
Aram Hamparian. "These hateful words, inscribed on the walls of the
U.S. Holocaust Museum and Memorial, remind us all of the compelling
moral cause of our time – the message delivered so clearly and
powerfully by Screamers – that we must end forever the cycle of
genocide."

"Screamers" recently won the prestigious Audience Award at the AFI
Film Festival and was selected by the Skirball Center for its under-18
Film Guide. The Jewish community of California will be shown the film
on January 22. The film’s nationwide release begins January 26.