WHYY-TV TO SCREEN "THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" FILM
ArmRadio.am
31.05.2007 12:45
WHYY-TV, Delaware Broadcasting Center celebrates the diverse community
during June Membership Drive, through special programming including
The Armenian Genocide, which airs at 7:30 June 5.
That night "Genocide’s" Emmy-Award winning producer, Andrew Goldberg,
of Two Cats Productions, will be live in the WHYY studio discussing
his documentary.
The documentary is the story of the first Genocide of the 20th century,
when over one million Armenians died at the hands of the Turks during
World War 1. The program features interviews with experts in the
field including Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Samantha Power, and
New York Times best-selling author, Peter Balakian. The film also
features never-before-seen historical footage and key players from
the events of 1915.
Goldberg filmed the piece in six countries; US, France, Germany,
Belgium, Turkey and Syria. He captured stories and discussions with
Kurdish and Turkish citizens in modern-day Turkey who speak openly
about the stories shared with them by their parents and grandparents.
The film includes testimony by former Turkish Diplomat Gunduz Aktan to
US lawmakers from 2000. In the piece he explains the Turkish position
on the issue by saying `The Turkish people firmly believe that what
happened to the Armenian people was not Genocide.’
Goldberg says, "As Turkey seeks to join the European Union, 90 years
later, this film can give people a much better understanding of why
this issue is such an important and current part of the international
conversation about Turkey’s role in the world today."
Julianna Margulies narrates the film, which also includes historical
narrations by Ed Harris, Natalie Portman, Laura Linney and Orlando
Bloom to name a few.