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Screamers ... |
Posted by ZAk on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 12:56 PM
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"Screamers"
is a documentary feature following the Grammy-award winning rock band ‘System of
a Down’ as they confront the issue of the Armenian genocide in Turkey in 1915
and efforts by the Turkish government to deny it.
Through the band’s personal
campaign to stop all genocides, Pulitzer prize-winner Samantha Power, survivors
and whistleblowers, the film traces the Armenian genocide’s links to the
Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia, the Iraqi Kurds and today’s genocide in Darfur. It
shows how successive Presidents and corporate interests have conspired to turn a
blind eye to genocides as they are happening. We say ‘never again’ but we don’t
mean it.
Directed by Carla Garapedian, Screamers is the first of several special
interest films the production company hopes to distribute in the United States
each year.
In Screamers, Garapedian traces the history of modern-day genocide - and
genocide denial - from the fertile “Holy Mountains” of Anatolia to the current
atrocities in Darfur. The documentary is as shattering as it is powerful, which
includes live performance footage and interviews with System Of A Down, the
multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning rock band, all of whose members are of
Armenian descent. The film is laced with seven of the band’s songs from “Holy
Mountains” to “P.L.U.C.K.” to the #1 hit “B.Y.O.B.” that illuminate the band’s
views on political and social issues.
Screamers came together in the summer 2004 after producer McAlevey (“Radio
Flyer,” “Shadow Hours”) approached System Of A Down’s legendary producer Rick
Rubin about partnering with the band to make a documentary about one of their
main causes – recognition of the Armenian genocide.
With Rubin’s support, Garapedian met System Of A Down, who endorsed the film’s
important message -- how the world’s denial of the Turk’s Armenian genocide
contributed to the continuing crisis of international genocides ever since –
from Armenia to Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and present-day Darfur.
The cameras followed the band on their European and American tours last summer
and fall as they promoted their new, two-album set, “Mezmerize” and “Hypnotize.”
(Their collective record sales have totaled over 16 million albums worldwide.)
In the US, they attempted to track down House Speaker Dennis Hastert, visited a
100-year-old survivor and, most importantly, spent time with lead singer Serj
Tankian’s grandfather, one of the few remaining eyewitnesses of the genocide.
Finally, just this spring, seven months after staging a protest rally at Dennis
Hastert’s offices in Illinois (dubbed “Dennis, Do the Right Thing”), Tankian and
drummer John Dolmayan confronted Hastert in the Capital Rotunda … luckily, the
cameras were there.
With an ending filmed in the actual village in Turkey where the massacre of
Tankian’s ancestors began, set against the ghostly strains of the hit “Holy
Mountains,” the film comes full circle from 1915 through the horrors of 20th and
21st Century genocide in Darfur … to a finale of ghostly images of real
ancestors that will never be forgotten.
Excerpts of Screamers were shown in Congress in April of this year. The World
Premiere of the film will occur at the upcoming AFI Film Festival.
Screamers is produced by Nick de Grunwald, Tim Swain, Carla Garapedian and Peter
McAlevey, Screamers is set for a limited release in Los Angeles, CA on
December 8th,
Stay Tuned for more details soon.
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Comments
DaronsHeroin
18.10.06, 01:07
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I really hope I can watch this. Thanks for this, ZAk.
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ZAk
18.10.06, 01:41
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Yes, the photo is for Serj along with his grandpa, the opening will be in LA but im sure they will go for other States later, at least I hope
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AK
18.10.06, 02:04
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The premier is going to be in LA on november 2 and november 3 at the AFI Film Festival...the DVD will be released in LA on December the 8th. I am also sure that as other film festivals go on, they will include Screamers eventually
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Lune
18.10.06, 02:28
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Cool! Serj's grandpa! I thought there was a lot of love in that picture...
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v_shadows409
18.10.06, 06:52
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I want to see it so bad now!
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System-Finland
18.10.06, 11:19
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This sounds interesting I wanna see it too!
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alma
18.10.06, 18:42
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hey, that sounds really good. I hope, I will get to see it too. But i am not sure if the documentary is gonna go for Europe as well. I hope so. I feel related to all that becaue I am Bosnian and as someone of you already said: "truth should never be denied!" PS: the picture is amazing. (Thanks for this article so much.)
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Moonette
18.10.06, 22:23
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Serj: Grandpa, I love you.
Grandpa: o_O
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psycho
19.10.06, 13:18
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good news
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xxSERJxx
19.10.06, 22:05
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awww. i love serj. this is great.
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Lika
20.10.06, 07:54
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I really would like to see this documentary!!! Serj and granpa!! Sooooo cute!!!
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Koen
20.10.06, 22:38
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remeber that it were not the turkish people that did the genicide, it was the government
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SystemofaDownisHot
21.10.06, 15:51
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I want to see this sooooooooooooooo badly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And for the picture.... Serj: We're going to have our own documentary for genocides! Grandma: ...I'm still ashamed of you Serj: uh... time to take your meds :)
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Harout
21.10.06, 18:29
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I cant wait for this ! im so proud of soad
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SystemCrAzY
21.10.06, 19:11
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dude im jealous!!! it should come out in other places then just LA!!!! that is like the only part that sux about it.. i met this family from turkey once and they were assholes and i really hate turkish people. they should go DIE IN A HOLE TOGETHER!!!!!! i freakin want to see the documentary though. it sounds great. awwww that is such a cute picture!!!!
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mezmerize_20
21.10.06, 19:52
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NO GENOCİDE !!!!!!!!! -----The 4 T PLAN---- The goal of Armenian terrorism that has never hesitated to go to such extremes as cold-blooded murder is to make the claims of genocide against Armenians heard and their demands known. The ultimate objective is a “Great Armenia”, for which they designed the so called “ Four T plan” based on propaganda, recognition, indemnity and land. The intention here is to rehabilitate the world public opinion by making them to accept, through terrorism, the existence of genocide against them, to force Turkey into recognising it, to receive compensation in monetary terms and finally to seize from Turkey the land needed for realising a Great Armenia. The claims underlying “the Four T Plan” are the following: The Turks invaded Armenia and seized its land. They applied a systematic massacre against Armenians since the 1877-1878 war. They resorted to a planned genocide against Armenians from 1915 onward. Talat Pasha issued secret orders to apply genocide on the Armenians. 1,5 million Armenians lost their lives through genocide. It is necessary to make a brief study on the claims and the historical developments of Turkish-Armenian relations so as to understand how preposterous the insinuations are and which clandestine interests underlie them
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mezmerize_20
21.10.06, 19:54
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WHAT İS GENOCİDE?????? The replacement was presented by the Armenians and hostile states as a massacre and genocide against Armenians, and a massive propaganda campaign was launched against the Ottomans. Genocide is the crime of annihilation of human groups because of racial, national, ethnic and religious differences. It can be perpetrated only directly by a Government or under its consent. In order to prevent the crime of genocide in the world, the United Nations General Assembly voted in 1948 the Genocide Convention, to which Turkey adhered in 1950. The mention of genocide reminds the massive massacres perpetrated by Nazis against Jews and other ethnic groups In World War II. In this period lasting from 1939 to 1945 six million Jews, more than three millions of Soviet prisoners of war, more than one million Polish and Yugoslav civilians, about 200.000 Gypsies and 70.000 disabled persons were murdered. This is genocide in the true sense of the word. Similarly, an imposing number of genocides have been committed in the recent years despite the United Nations Convention. For example, the confessions of two retired French generals published in the daily Le Monde show that the French army murdered at least one million Algerians between 1954 and 1962, while the Indonesian army massacred a full one million communists and their family members in 1965 and 1966, the Red Khmer killed 1,7 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979, 500.000 Tutsis were beheaded by Huttus of Ruanda in 1994 and thousands of Moslems were exposed to Serbian atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. The crime of genocide was committed in the above cases in its most blatant form. Contrary to the Armenian pretensions, the measures adopted regarding the Armenians in Eastern Anatolia was merely a replacement in another region within the Empire for security reasons and had nothing to do with genocide. It is true that there were Armenian losses during the war and the replacement operation but they were actually due to the failure of establishment of order because of the war and the revolts in Eastern Anatolia., together with hunger, lack of food and fuel, adverse climatic conditions and epidemics such as typhus. There was no genocide or a planned massacre whatsoever. It is a fact that the Armenians were subjected to many similar replacements in the past for treason against the states under whose hegemonies they were living. the Sasanites moved 70.000 Armenians to Iran in 379 AD, the Byzantines relocated 40.000 East Anatolian Armenians in Sivas and Kayseri in 1025, the Mameluks sent 10.000 to Egypt, the Iranians dispersed 24.000 into the country and the Russians invading Crimea sent thousands of Armenians into the Siberian steppes. Without mentioning any of these preceding replacements and exiles, the Armenians strive to make a genocide issue out of their replacement undertaken in 1915 for undeniably sound reasons by the Ottoman State. This attitude is the product of policies designed to break apart the integrity of Turkey. The most obvious evidence of this phenomenon lies in the fact that the Western powers, oblivious to the true genocide events in Africa, the Balkans and several other parts of the world, lend support to the claims of genocide against Armenians.
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mbeene_2006
21.10.06, 22:36
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Cant wait to see this
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