Topic: Screamers Movie

Screamers, a film about genocide featuring System of a Down, opened this weekend in Los Angeles and will open in January in New York. The film recounts the mass murder of Armenians by the Turks, and suggests that world tolerance for this crime made the genocides that followed possible. "No one remembers the Armenians," Hitler famously commented.

A well-intentioned but inaccurate comment by an NPR reporter this weekend illustrated the timeliness of the film's message. He made a side comment about genocide in an interview about a different topic, saying that the term and the concept were invented in response to the slaughtering of Jews during the Holocaust.

They met to discuss the film in London in April 2005. "He said, "We will let you film us on tour if you can get the money together for the film, " said Garapedian. "They had never allowed anyone to film their performances. They want their songs to speak for themselves. They don't really want to be seen only as a political band."

AFI Festival winners unveiled

Producer Peter McAlevey and director Carla Garapedian accept the Audience Award during AFI FEST 2006

This year's AFI Festival wrapped up on Sunday night with the world premiere of "Curse of the Golden Flower." The film, directed by Zhang Yimou, features international superstars Gong Li and Chow Yun Fat.

Earlier in the evening the winners of the festival's awards were announced. "Grbavica," directed by Jasmila Zbanic, won the Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Competition. It's the official foreign language submission from Bosnia and Herzegovina for this year's Academy Awards, and will be distributed in 2007 by Strand Releasing.

The Grand Jury Prize for Documentary went to "Buddha's Lost Children," directed by Mark Verkerk. The award includes an unrestricted $10,000 grant."Disappearing" directed by Stefanie Berk won the Grand Jury Prize in the shorts competition, while Chris Shepard's "Silence Is Golden" received a special mention.

The Audience Award for Documentary was shared by "Blindsight," directed by Lucy Walker, and "Screamers," directed by Carla Garapedian.

Screamers is an internationally produced documentary that covers the history of modern-day genocide and genocide denial, beginning with the Armenian Genocide in 1915, and how the world's inaction lead to other massacres. read more about it and see what theater you can lookup the movie in HERE.

Our Congratulations to Carla, the movie crew and System for the great job -:)

Screamers, the movie about Americas struggles to recognize the Armenian Genocide, stars the members of System Of A Down, and its finally hitting select silver screens. The movie started screening on Wednesday night as part of the AFI Film Festival, and it will open to the public for a limited showing on December 8 in Los Angeles. Another showing is set for mid-January in New York City.

Serj Tankian, whose grandfather tells his tales of the atrocities he suffered as part of the Armenian Genocide during World War 1 in the film Screamers, explained why the film's message is so important.