PRESS RELEASE
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel.: 617-489-1610
E-Mail: hq@naasr.org
Contact: Marc Mamigonian

TED BOGOSIAN TO REVISIT "AN ARMENIAN JOURNEY" IN TALK AND SCREENING AT ALMA

A special screening of the landmark documentary film An Armenian Journey
and a talk by producer/director Ted Bogosian will be held on Thursday,
September 27, at 7:30 p.m., at the Armenian Library and Museum of
America (ALMA), 65 Main St., Watertown, MA. This special event will be
co-sponsored by ALMA, Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives (some of
whose photographs were used in the film), the Charles and Elisabeth
Kenosian Chair in Armenian History and Literature at Boston University,
and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).

With An Armenian Journey, originally shown on PBS in 1988, journalist
and producer and director Theodore Bogosian broke new ground in bringing
to a mass American audience the history of the Armenian Genocide and the
calculated attempts to deny it.

Tracking a Survivor and Chasing Evidence

An Armenian Journey focuses on a Genocide survivor, Mariam Davis, who
travels with Bogosian to visit the villages in today’s Eastern Turkey
which she had last seen seven decades earlier. The film also follows
Bogosian on a journey to Soviet Armenia, where he seeks and finds
evidence-at that time largely unknown and thought to be lost-of the
culpability of the Ottoman government in the extermination of the
Armenians.

The film has rarely been shown since its initial airing in 1988 and will
be presented at ALMA in a newly remastered version and updated with new
prologue and epilogue.

Bogosian will discuss his experiences in making the film and the
enormous controversy it generated at the time, as well as offer remarks
on the changes and the continuities between the time at which the film
was made and the present.

Ted Bogosian was a longtime producer for the PBS series "Nova." He has
received numerous honors, including two Emmys and several other national
and international awards. Among his other films are Anatomy of a
‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ and The Press Secretary.

The event is open to the general public. The Armenian Library and
Museum is located in Watertown Square at the corner of Main Street and
Church Street. Parking is available behind the museum building and in
adjacent areas. The evening’s program will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m.
A reception will follow the program.

More information about the screening and talk is available by calling
NAASR at 617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing hq@naasr.org, or
mailing NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478; or contact ALMA at
617-926-2562.