Filmmaker Carla Garapedian to serve as panelist at ANC-WR presentation

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian National Committee – Western Region announced that documentary filmmaker Carla Garapedian will serve as a panelist in “Lights, Camera, Activate,” which will cover the ways in which film, music and the arts can be used to promote grassroots activism.

The presentation is part of the ANC Grassroots weekend that will take place from Friday, November 25 to Sunday, November 27, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel.

Carla Garapedian is the Director and Producer of the film “Screamers,” featuring the world-renowned band System of a Down.

Working from Britain, Carla Garapedian has been a Director and Producer since 1989. She earned her Ph.D. in international relations at the London School of Economics before working as a producer, director and correspondent based in London. She is the only American to anchor BBC World News. She has been a correspondent for NBC Sunrise, NBC Nightly News and CNBC in London.

She made her name as an international documentary director with “Lifting the Veil,” a film about the brutal treatment of women in Afghanistan.

She narrated the Armenian genocide films, “Voices from the Lake” and “The River Ran Red” by acclaimed filmmaker, J. Michael Hagopian, as well as co-wrote his award-winning film “Germany and the Secret Genocide.”

Garapedian is leading the Armenian Film Foundation’s project to digitize a rare collection of 400 Armenian genocide survivor interviews into Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation visual history archive, which currently holds 52,000 Holocaust survivor interviews. This unique project will make available, for the first time, the testimonials of Armenian genocide survivors to universities around the world. Along with testimonials from the Rwandan, Cambodian and Bosnian genocides, this archive will be one of the largest genocide testimonial archives in the world.

She is the founder of the Pomegranate Foundation, which holds an annual student film festival, the Pomegranate Student Film Fest. The Foundation’s goal is to raise awareness about genocide, and all forms of intolerance, by supporting young filmmakers and other artists.

Garapedian joins Serj Tankian, Eric Nazarian and Suzanne Khardalian on this panel of film and music luminaries, which will be moderated by Eric V. Hachikian.