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Baku Today
June 25 2004

KLO Activists Get Two Months in Jail for Their Anti-Armenian Action

Baku’s Nasimi District court on Thursday sentenced five jailed
activists of the Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) to two months
in jail for their unauthorized protest action against Armenian
participation of a Baku-hosted NATO conference.

The KLO chairman Akif Naghi, along with four other activists of his
organization, Mursal Hasanov, Ilkin Qurbanov, Rovshan Fatiyev and
Manaf Kerimov, were found culpable of resisting police, violating
public order and hooliganism.

The KLO members on Tuesday protested Armenian participants of the
planning conference for NATO’s `Cooperative Best Effort-2004′
exercises, Col. Murad Isakhanyan and Sen. Lt. Aram Hovhanesyan, by
breaking into a conference hall of Baku’s Grand Hotel Europe, where
the event was taking place.

As a result, the conference was stopped for several minutes.

Several windows of the conference hall of the hotel were broken by
the protestors and there was no report of serious injuries on police
or KLO activists during the incident.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

armenianow.com
25 June 2004

Guilty?: Opposition leader sentenced to 18 months

By Vahan Ishkhanyan ArmeniaNow reporter
A court in the Armavir Region has sentenced political leader Lavrenti
Kirakosyan to 18 months in prison on drug charges. Human rights activists
and political opposition leaders say Kirakosyan, regional head of the
National Democratic Union, was framed by police who planted drugs in his
home during a search, and that his arrest was for political reasons.

In reaching its decision, the court relied on testimony of five policemen,
while disregarding the testimony of two civilian search witnesses whose
testimony implied that police placed marijuana in Kirakosyan’s home.

As previously reported in ArmeniaNow, Kirakosyan was arrested April 10,
during a political protest. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail for failure
to obey a police order. Two hours before he was to be released, police were
sent to search his home, on suspicion that he was holding weapons for
acquaintances who were suspected of a crime.

His lawyer confers with Kirakosyan in court
No weapons were found. A second search was ordered, after which police
produced 59 grams of marijuana they said was found atop a water heater in
Kirakosyan’s home.

Policeman Mnatsakan Mnatsakanyan testified that he found the marijuana.

“We finished the search. When we were going to leave the building he (deputy
head of the police department) told me to check the water heater, because I
am tall,” Mnatsakanyan said. “I heard someone had tried, but was too short
to reach it.”

(Witnesses of the search say the first policeman who checked the water
heater is in fact appreciably taller that Mnatsakanyan.)

Police contradicted their own testimony. For instance, some of them said
after searching the water heater for the first time they searched the whole
house, roof and yard and in the end again searched the water heater and only
after that they found marijuana. Another policeman said they had searched
the water heater two times without intervals.

Search witness Misha Shmavonyan said a plastic vase was found in the same
location as the drugs and that the vase was covered in dust, while the
package holding the marijuana was clean – a suggestion that the drugs had
been placed there moments earlier.

(Police dogs were used in the search, but did not detect the drugs.)

A policeman took photographs of the search, but testified that the film has
been damaged and no photos are available.

Shmavonyan and another search witness, Gevorg Gevorgyan, say they were
forced by police to sign statements verifying the search. Shmavonyan also
testified that police had come to his home to try to persuade him to not
appear as a witness at the trial.

A urine sample was taken from Kirakosyan during his detention and traces of
marijuana was found in his blood. However, prior to the specimen being
taken, Kirakosyan had become ill after eating food prepared in the jail and
claims that the drug was cooked into the food he was given. A doctor treated
Kirakosyan.

The court refused Kirakosyan’s attorney Vardan Zurnachyan’s motion to call
the doctor as a witness.

Residents from Kirakosyan’s village of Karakert, filled the court for his
trial. Some among the 600 residents wrote letters praising Kriakosyan’s
civil service. One said he is a man who others call even for settling
marital disputes.

“He always helps people and struggles for justice,” wrote villager Lavrenti
Safaryan. “I will tell you a story that happened two days before he was sent
to prison. I was in Ikarus (a type of bus). There is a sick woman in the
village, she is helpless. She was suffering from complication of her arm.
Lavrenti helped her to get into the Ikarus, took her to hospital, made
doctors treat her and brought her back. He paid for her bus ticket and told
the driver, ‘next time don’t take money from this woman’.”

The court was filled with supporters from Karakert
For his part, Kirakosyan stated he has been subjected to political
persecutions for several years. In 1996 he was sentenced to six months of
imprisonment on charges, he claims, that were also fabricated, and again
following his protest of presidential elections.

Kirakosyan testified that during detention Deputy Head of Police of Armavir,
Edik Lazarian, told him that if he would promise to stop his political
activities, he would be released.

Kirakosyan said the head of the police department was asking him questions
about his political party activities and specifically wanted to know the
plans of opposition leaders Aram Sargsyan and Stepan Demirchyan. Kirakosyan
says he told police: “I am not a spy”.

Prior to the trial’s conclusion, leader of the National Democratic Union
Vazgen Manukyan held a press conference and stated that Kirakosyan is a
political prisoner and holding him violates Council of Europe mandates
regarding human rights.

“This is political matter,” Manukyan said. “They can fabricate a drug or a
murder case, however, the essence remains the same. If this case and Edgar
Arakelyan’s case (a demonstrator also convicted to 18 months for
hooliganism) are stomached, then in the future any political cases will be
turned into criminal ones.”

On the evening before the final court session Head of Police Department of
Baghramyan Region (where Kirakosyan had been held) Spartak Nahapetyan died
in a car accident.

Before making his final statement Kirakosyan asked participants of the trial
and those present in the courtroom to rise and have a minute of silence in
memory of the Head of Police Department.

Then Kirakosyan said his case is an ordered hearing and real criminals are
policemen who had fabricated the charges.

“This trial is an exceptional demonstration of dictatorship,” Kirakosyan
told the court. “However, it is well known that sooner or later all
dictatorships collapse.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PRESS RELEASE
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489 MOUNT AUBURN STREET
WATERTOWN, MA 02472
Contact: Gregory H. Arabian
Tel (617)926-8600
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Email: [email protected]

Myron Khederian took a year to give up his story. Combat engineer,
rifleman and flame thrower in WWII, he claimed he `never did anything
worth mentioning.’

When his Armenian American AMVETS Post asked him to participate in
its Oral History, Myron’s family, reading the Newsletter, urged him to
tell his story without success. One day, just before a meeting, Oral
History Director and Judge Advocate Major Greg Arabian cajoled
Myron. He persuaded him to `just tell us a few things’ about his
military experience. Myron gave an Oral History that later proved
invaluable to his family who never knew about it. A year later, Myron
died. At church, fellow veteran Arthur `Libby’ Arakelian presented the
family with Myron’s Oral History taken a few months before. Myron’s
family was flabbergasted, surprised and thankful – all at the same
time. In a letter to Major Arabian, they described how they urged him
to participate, how he repeatedly and stubbornly refused, and now, how
indescribably valuable and precious it was for them to have this
permanent taped record of his amazing military history.

`It’s always the same,’ says Arabian. `Great veterans with great
stories who won’t talk about it unless and until you cajole, persist,
insist, and gently draw it out of them. It is a gentle art.’ In less
than two years, Arabian completed over 55 Oral Histories of a Post of
mostly Armenian American combat veterans, at no charge, at no cost to
the veteran. At the expense of his professional time, he travels from
his small law office to his Post, coordinating his time with days when
these elderly veterans can make it. Every veteran receives a copy of
his Oral History in less than a week. `We lose over 1000 veterans a
day, ` says Arabian. `That means that as every day that goes by, we
lose over 1000 Oral Histories that never made it. That is why I had to
do more.’

Supported by the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress,
Arabian now conducts Oral Histories of all Armenian American veterans
of WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He
has enlisted the support of a videographer, purchased camera and
recording equipment, practiced the latest techniques and refined Oral
History to an art far beyond his initial dreams. He looks everywhere
for new recruits, will go anywhere within reason to get them, and
takes great pleasure in his ever improving techniques. He simply likes
veterans. Those who know anyone of the dying breed of the Greatest
Generation and especially now, those veterans who have a story to tell
would do our country a great service by contacting him at The Armenian
American Veterans Oral History Project, 489 Mount Auburn Street,
Watertown, MA 02472 or contact him at [email protected]. You will be
pleasantly surprised.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Armenian opposition leaders hail president’s address to Council of Europe

Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
24 Jun 04

[Presenter] The reaction to [Armenian President] Robert Kocharyan’s
speech in Strasbourg and his news conference have become a subject of
discussion in Armenia. According to our correspondent, irrespective of
their political views, people are talking with admiration about the
president’s speech and his answers during the news conference.

[An unidentified woman in the street] I felt proud that Robert
Kocharyan is the president of our country. He gave clear, correct
answers to all the questions, especially, to the Azerbaijani
journalist’s question on Nagornyy Karabakh. I was simply astonished.

[Another unidentified woman in the street] As a citizen of Armenia, I
was very pleased with the president’s speech and it seems to me that
today there is no other statesman in our political field who could
deliver such a speech in Strasbourg. He is a well-established
politician in our political field.

[Chairman of the Union of Armenian Writers Levon Ananyan in his
office] I think that the republic’s president gave clear, distinct
answers to all the questions concerning our foreign policy,
Turkish-Armenian relations and the genocide. I hope that it will
increase our country’s rating in the international community.

[Presenter] The Armenian president’s speech from the rostrum in
Strasbourg has had a positive influence on the country’s political
field. Even Robert Kocharyan’s political opponents highly spoke of his
speech. For example, speaking about Armenia’s position on the
settlement of the Karabakh problem, Artashes Gegamyan [the leader of
the National Unity Party], said that he was satisfied with Mr
Kocharyan’s assessments and approaches.

The leader of the Democratic Party of Armenia, Aram Sarkisyan, said
that one of the main parts of Mr Kocharyan’s speech concerned the
legal aspect of the Karabakh problem. According to Sarkisyan, the
president expressed the opinion that Azerbaijan’s territorial
integrity has nothing in common with the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic
[NKR].

Representatives of the [ruling] political coalition have also said
that after Robert Kocharyan’s speech in Strasbourg, the international
community will have a more accurate impression about Armenia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Azeri minister regrets Armenian leader’s “aggressive rhetoric”

ANS TV, Baku
24 Jun 04

[Presenter] Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has already left
France. His speech at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe [PACE] on 23 June is being analysed as a confession of
occupation at the state level.

[Correspondent over video of Kocharyan speaking at PACE] This is
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan’s confession. Yes, I do not
recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. I participated in the
military operation in Nagornyy Karabakh from 1988 to 1994 and am proud
of this.

The head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, MP Samad Seyidov, said
that the Armenian president’s speech did not cause discontent only
amongst Azerbaijani MPs, but also European MPs.

[Samad Seyidov by telephone from Strasbourg] There was a big scandal
here, because of his statement at the Council of Europe that he had
occupied lands and was proud of it. This is a disgrace. At today’s
discussions on the Nagornyy Karabakh-Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict,
[Secretary-General elect] Terry Davis said that the Armenian president
had said those words yesterday. However, we should bear in mind that
Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity has been recognized by the UN.

[Correspondent] Seyidov said that the shorthand report of Robert
Kocharyan’s report was already ready and the speech would be analysed
and reflected in documents and a resolution of the Council of
Europe. A quote: Kocharyan has actually exposed himself with his
statement in Strasbourg. He did not behave like a president, but a
ringleader. He will soon be brought to book at a military court for
his utterances, end quote.

Robert Kocharyan’s scandalous speech is already being debated in all
Council of Europe committees. The MP said that this issue would also
be debated at the autumn session of PACE.

[Samad Seyidov] We both protested against this, are preparing the
necessary documents for the next session, and members of our
delegation are meeting other delegates to prove that the information
given was wide of the mark. At the same time, we are planning to take
several other concrete steps.

[Correspondent] We asked the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry for its next
steps. Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said that the aggressive
rhetoric from the influential Council of Europe rostrum caused regret
and did not serve a peaceful resolution of the Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict.

Afat Telmanqizi for ANS.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Two brandy producers reach agreement to jointly market Ararat

AP Online
Jun 25, 2004

An Armenian brandy factory, owned by the French liquor giant Pernod
Ricard, reached an agreement with another brandy manufacturer in this
ex-Soviet republic to jointly use the famous Ararat logo.

The agreement between the Yerevan Brandy Factory, bought in 1998 by
Pernod Ricard in one of Armenia’s most striking privatization deals,
and the Yerevan Brandy-Wine-Vodka Combine will allow both factories to
produce Ararat brandy.

The label dates back to 1887 and was named after the mountain _ which
is physically in Turkey but considered the symbol of Armenia _ where
legend says Noah’s Ark came to rest. Ararat brandy is one of the most
well-known brands in Europe, and was reportedly the favorite of
Winston Churchill.

Pier Laretch, the director of the French-owned Yerevan Brandy Factory,
said “tough negotiations” led to the agreement, adding “but when you
are talking about such a well known brand as Ararat, you must be
careful.”

He said the agreement requires both companies to produce the brandy
from Armenian-grown grapes and to distill a spirit that is matured and
bottled in Armenia. The factories will set up a joint association,
Brandy Bridge, to oversee the shared use.

Both factories “made a choice in support of an effective type of
cooperation that will promote the sale of Armenian brandy in Armenia
and in the world market and will further the creation of good-spirited
competition between the producers,” Laretch said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Baku Today, Azerbaijan
June 25 2004

Azeri Official Accuses Armenian President of Lying to World

Ramiz Novruzov, head of the foreign relations department at the
Azerbaijani president’s office, on Thursday accused Armenian President
Robert Kocharian for his attempt to lie to all the world in his speech
at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on June
23.

During his speech, which has caused anger in Azerbaijan, Kocharian
claimed that Nagorno Karabagh has never been part of independent
Azerbaijan.

The Armenian president said that at the time of collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991 two states were formed: the Azerbaijani Republic on the
territory of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and Republic of
Nagorno Karabagh on the territory of the Nagorno Karabagh Autonomous
Region.

`Establishment of both these states has similar legal grounds. The
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, henceforth, has nothing to do
with the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh,’ claimed Kocharian.

`These are all sheer lies,’ said Novruzov. `Nagorno Karabakh is
Azerbaijan’s historical land. Armenians have been resettled in
Karabakh not long ago and they even have celebrated the 150th
anniversary of their resettlement in Karabakh by erecting a monument
there,’ he said.

The Armenian president’s statement was also rejected by Terri Devis,
the new chairman of the Council of Europe who had worked as a
rapporteur of this high European body on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
before being elected to the position.

Asim Mollazade, a member of Azerbaijan’s delegation at the PACE said
in his interview with local media that, Davis said during his speech
at the Political Committee of the PACE on 24 June that Azerbaijan
joined the United Nations with Nagorno Karabakh being part of its
territory.

Mollazade said the CE chairman also underlined that Azerbaijan’s
territories have been occupied.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Baku Sun, Azerbaijan
June 25 2004

Cold reception for Armenians

by Zulfugar Agayev (Staff Writer)

A protester is held back at Baku’s Grand Hotel Europe
earlier this week. The arrival of Armenian officers
in Baku for a NATO conference angered many
Azerbaijani citizens. (Photo from TURAN Information Agency)

BAKU – While the Azerbaijani army was grieving for its loss of a
23-year-old officer, Lieutenant Teymur Panahov, who fell victim to an
Armenian sniper bullet early Tuesday, several young Azeris broke into
a Baku-hosted NATO conference the same day in protest of Armenian
participation at the controversial event.

According to the press office of Azerbaijan’s ministry of defense,
the officer Panahov received a fatal wound to the head, in
Dashsalahli village, of the western Qazakh District bordering
Armenia.

Outraged by the arrival of two Armenian officers in Baku – Colonel
Murad Isakhanyan and Senior Lieutenant Aram Hovhanesian – a group of
activists from the Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) managed to
push through police cordons and stormed into the capital’s Grand
Hotel Europe, where the conference was taking place.

As a result, the conference was halted for about ten minutes before
police arrested 12 protestors. The protestors broke several glass
windows of the hotel while fighting to get into the conference hall.
There was no report of serious injuries on either side as a result of
the incident.

A criminal case was filed against five of the arrested KLO members,
including the chairman of the organization, Akif Naghi, on charges of
hooliganism. A KLO deputy chairman, Shamil Mehdi, said that the
spirit of all those arrested is high and that they do not feel any
repentance for their action.

The planning conference for NATO’s `Cooperative Best Effort-2004′
military exercises, which are planned to be held in Azerbaijan in
September, brought together 21 NATO member states and partners on
Tuesday and Wednesday.

Several non-governmental organizations in Baku, particularly the KLO,
had warned the Armenian delegation against attending the Baku
conference. They accused the Armenian officers of participating in
the occupation of Azerbaijan’s territories in the 1991-94 war,
slaughtering over 20,000 Azerbaijanis and expelling nearly 1 million
people from their homes.

Armenian delegation failed to show up at a similar Baku-hosted NATO
conference in January for reasons still unclear.

The arrival of the Armenians also angered members of Milli Majlis
(parliament).

`These [Armenian] officers might have gained their military ranks for
their services during the war against Azerbaijan,’ Zahid Oruc, an MP
from the pro-government Motherland party, said during a parliamentary
meeting on Tuesday.

Another MP, Sabir Rustamkhanli, from the opposition Citizens’
Solidarity Party, said it was a disgrace to have allowed officers of
an enemy army, `whose hands are imbrued with Azerbaijani blood,’ to
visit Baku.

Although the parliamentary speaker, Murtuz Aleskerov, sought to sooth
the ire of the legislators by saying that the Armenian officers have
arrived in the Azeri capital secretly, the ministry of foreign
affairs was quick to respond that the officers have nor arrived
underhandedly at all.

A statement by the foreign ministry on Wednesday said that Deputy
Foreign Minister Araz Azimov had made a statement about the
Armenians’ expected visit three days before the conference opened on
Tuesday.

Ali Hasanov, head of the social-political department at the
president’s apparatus, on Wednesday said that the anger among the
Azerbaijani public over the Armenian officer’s visit to Baku is
understandable. However, Hasanov noted that the public has to take
into account the situation of the Azerbaijani state as well.

`It is possible to protest. Through this, we express our protest
against the occupation of our lands. But this protest should not be
demonstrated by breaking windows of the hotel where the conference is
held,’ Hasanov told reporters.

Anger among ordinary citizens was also obvious.

`What are the Armenians seeking here?’ asked Imarat Abbsova, 50, an
internally displaced woman from the occupied Aghdam District. `How
can they come here and sit with us at the same table after all that
they have done against us?’

KLO activists put the blame on Azerbaijan’s government for their
failure to impede the Armenian officers’ coming to Baku.

`The Azerbaijani government should have placed a clear demand on NATO
to prevent Armenian officers coming to Azerbaijan until they stop
occupying our territories,’ Barat Imani, a deputy KLO chairman, told
Baku Sun.

`The Armenian flag waving in Baku was an insult against the people of
Azerbaijan,’ said Imami in response to the Armenian flag, along with
those of the other attending NATO countries at the conference being
mounted outside Grand Hotel Europe in Baku.

Imani also accused international organizations, including NATO, of
double standards, urging them to `call the aggressor by its real
name.’

An MP from the opposition Compatriot party, Mais Safarli, also
believes that the government should have stopped the Armenians’
participating in the Baku conference.

`It was disrespectful to the souls of our martyrs. Armenian officers’
hands have been stained with our martyrs’ blood,’ said Safarli.

The MP promised that he would demand the parliament to release the
arrested KLO members.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ArmenPress
June 25 2004

CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON
REQUIRES BIG MONEY

YEREVAN, JUNE 25, ARMENPRESS: Armenian ambassador to the USA,
Arman Kirakosian, said today that the repair of a building in
downtown Washington, purchased by the Armenian Assembly of America to
rebuild it into the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial to detail
the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turkish government from
1915-23, may take years, “as the project requires huge financial
support.”
According to Rouben Adalian, director of the Armenian National
Institute in D.C. ,a research organization created by the Armenian
Assembly of America, the museum project likely will cost about $100
million. Two years ago, the Armenian Assembly of America bought the
30,000-square-foot National Bank of Washington building at 14th and G
streets NW for $7.25 million to house the museum.
The Museum and Memorial will have 90,000 square feet of space,
consisting of approximately 60,000 square feet of newly constructed
space, and 32,000 square feet in the historical former National Bank
of Washington building. The museum and memorial will combine the
power of architecture, art and contemporary technologies with
artifacts, archival texts and photographs to communicate the
historical experience of the Armenian people, the trauma and legacy
of the Armenian genocide, and the role of American and international
philanthropy in rescuing the survivors.

Los Angeles Times
June 25, 2004 Friday
Home Edition

MOVIE REVIEW;

Dreams, detours get ‘Bought & Sold’;

In the affecting drama, an aspiring DJ begins working for a loan
shark and meets people who cause him to reconsider the direction of
his life.

by Kevin Crust, Times Staff Writer

Writer-director Michael Tolajian mines the diversity of a multiethnic
enclave of storefront shops in Jersey City, N.J., to craft the
well-acted drama “Bought & Sold.” Leavened with humor, the film
traces a young man’s hard-won entry into adulthood as he discovers
his priorities.

A year out of high school, Ray Ray Morales is anxious to make it as a
DJ and is growing frustrated by the low pay, not to mention the
smelly feet, associated with his job as a shoe salesman. Played by
Rafael Sardina, who resembles a young Oscar De La Hoya, Ray Ray feels
pressure from his pushy fiancee, Hilda (Cristina Ablaza), and his own
creative ambitions.

To help Ray Ray save for a turntable he’s been eyeing in the window
of a pawnshop, his friend Papo (Frank Harts) hooks him up with a
second job working for a loan shark who also deals in “gaming
interests,” “pharmaceutical sales” and “vehicle export.”

“It’s important to diversify,” says Alphonso “Chunks” Colon (Joe
Grifasi), who fancies himself as the neighborhood padrone. After
determining Ray Ray is too smart to waste on petty crime, Chunks
gives him an assignment working at the pawnshop monitoring its cash
flow. The proprietor, an elderly Armenian named Kutty Nazarian (David
Margulies), owes Chunks a great deal of money and it becomes Ray
Ray’s responsibility to ensure the weekly payments are met.

Kutty runs the shop with help from his attractive niece, Ruby (Marjan
Neshat), who catches Ray Ray’s eye and encourages him to pursue his
dreams. Hilda, on the other hand, doesn’t care what Ray Ray does for
a living as long as he provides for her in the manner she envisions.

Chunks is at first paternal toward Ray Ray, but when business becomes
business, things get ugly fast and the younger man is forced to
choose which path his life will take. Tolajian creates a viable,
self-contained world and does a nice job of integrating veterans
Grifasi and Margulies with an ensemble of newcomers. The story wraps
a little too neatly and backs away from some of its darker impulses
but is finally a sweet-natured tale of male rituals and cultural
adaptation in urban America.

*

‘Bought & Sold’

MPAA rating: R for language and sexual references

Times guidelines: Threats of violence

Rafael Sardina…Ray Ray Morales

David Margulies…Kutty Nazarian

Joe Grifasi…”Chunks” Colon

Marjan Neshat…Ruby

Frank Harts…Papo Rivera

A Pawnshop Pictures production, released by Pathfinder Pictures.
Writer-director Michael Tolajian. Producers Bergen Swanson, Michael
Tolajian. Cinematographer Kip Bogdahn. Editors Seth Anderson, Michael
Tolajian. Costume designer Michelle Phillips. Music Joe Delia.
Running time: 1 hour, 31 minutes.

Exclusively at Laemmle’s Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood,
(323) 848-3500.

GRAPHIC: PHOTO: ROAD TO DISCOVERY: Rafael Sardina stars as Ray Ray
Morales in the New Jersey-based drama “Bought & Sold.” PHOTOGRAPHER:
Pathfinder Pictures

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress