Armenian National Committee
San Francisco - Bay Area


The River Ran Red
With filmmaker,
Michael J. Hagopian
in Person

 

 

Winner of the Best International Historical Documentary of the New York International Film and Video Festival and Second Place (History and Biography) of the U.S. International Film and Video Festival Tuesday

 

April 27, 2010
6:00 pm (sharp)
Koret Auditorium
Lower Level, San Francisco Public Library
(100 Larkin Street at Grove)

Free Admission

The River Ran Red is the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400 testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity, taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning deserts of Syria... and to the final resting place of those whose blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates Michael J. Hagopian, escaped from the Armenian Genocide and moved with his mother to Fresno, California. Receiving his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and doctorate in International Relations from Harvard, Hagopian founded Atlantis Films, producing more than fifty documentaries and winning two Emmy Awards for The Forgotten Genocide, the first full-length feature on the Armenian Genocide. Hagopian later founded the non-profit Armenian Film Foundation dedicated to preserving the visual and personal histories of the witnesses to the first genocide of the 20th century.