GENOCIDE ARCHIVE PROJECT
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Contact: David Davidian
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Email: dbd@urartu.sdpa.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUBMITTED TO BOSTO
May 22, 2005
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DOCUMENTARY N JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
BELMONT, MA–The Genocide Archive Project, Inc. submitted its DVD, “1915 Turkish Genocide of the Armenians,” to the 2006 Boston Jewish Film Festival (www.bjff.org). Executive Producer David Davidian of the Genocide Archive Project and Film Director Franchot Lubin of Lubin Productions,
compiled this 32 minute enhancement of an earlier DVD created from Boston’s 90th Genocide commemoration.
The “1915 Turkish Genocide of the Armenians” DVD consists of a new, powerful mini-documentary and three survivor accounts spanning the breadth of Asia Minor: Armineh Dedekian from Bandirma (across the Sea of Marmara
from Istanbul), Peter Bilezekian from Marash, and John Kasparian from Van.
These three survivors were subsequently interviewed by the Boston Globe in April 2005.
The creators of this documentary have an accomplished record in pursuit of Genocide recognition and film making.
David Davidian, dbd@urartu.sdpa.org, began his historical advocacy in the late 1980s on a network that pre-dated the Internet. Davidian spearheaded a debate with deniers of this genocide on UseNet, the precursor of today’s
news groups. By 1996, this debate was the longest continual debate on the Internet. As a result, Davidian amassed a huge digital historical archive and eventually founded the Genocide Archive Project, Inc., a non-profit
foundation based in Belmont. Davidian was part of the initiative that created the “kNOw GENOCIDE Coalition” earlier this year in Boston (www.knowgenocide.org) and is a contributor to Facing History and Ourselves.
Franchot Lubin, lubin@lubinproductions.com, started Lubin Productions over 12 years ago, with studios in Waltham, MA. Lubin Productions produces videos for corporate, education, fashion, and entertainment industries. In
the late 1990s, Franchot was approached by Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah project, to videotape Boston-area Holocaust survivors. Franchot Lubin’s work is now part of the Visual History Foundation (www.vhf.org)
along with thousands of other video testimonies documenting the Holocaust.
Lubin directed the documentary of the Armenian Genocide Commemoration held in Greater Boston in 2005, and recorded the interview of survivors who were nearly 100-years old. The resulting DVD, “Road to Redemption,” was
distributed to nearly 100 Greater Boston High School Social Science departments earlier this year, as well as to Facing History and Ourselves.
Both the “1915 Turkish Genocide of the Armenians” and “Road to Redemption:
Memories of the 1915 Armenian Genocide” DVDs are available to the general
public.
The Genocide Archive Project is a non-profit foundation dedicated to educating the general public on genocide and related acts of mass extermination, in particular through its unique digital archives and wide range of academic resources.
