“Orphans of the Genocide” movie selected for national PBS distribution

PanARMENIAN.Net - Documentary film production company Armenoid Productions announced Monday, February 29 that the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) has selected its award-winning “Orphans of the Genocide” documentary by Bared Maronian for national distribution to over 300 public television stations. The documentary is scheduled for national broadcast across PBS stations by April 24.

“I urge Armenian-Americans nationwide to contact their local public television station’s programming department to urge them to air the special 60-minute version of “Orphans of the Genocide” sponsored by NETA,” said Maronian. “This is a great honor that NETA has selected a documentary on the Armenian Genocide as part of their select number of programming recommendations to national PBS stations.”

The National Educational Telecommunications Association is a professional association that serves public television licensees and educational entities in all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The four-time Regional Emmy Award winner filmmaker Maronian’s “Orphans of the Genocide” documentary has been previously screened on select PBS stations nationwide. The documentary weaves historical archives with interviews and memoirs of Armenian orphans establishing irrevocable proof of the Armenian Genocide.

Maronian is currently completing his new documentary project, “Women of 1915,” dealing with Armenian and non-Armenian women heroines who lived through the atrocities of WWI and survived to retell stories of strength, perseverance, and empowerment.