U.S. film production company to make film on Armenian Genocide

April 18, 2014 - 21:04 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Flawless Production, a film production company located in Tarzana, California, is currently developing a drama feature film called “Armenia, My country, My Mother, My Love."

“We want to make a big film and release it in April 2015, for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide,” film producer Nerses Arutunyan said, according to SBWire.

“It is our duty to make the world know, recognize, apologize and redeem for the memory of those children burnt alive, for the tears of our desperate mothers and for the helplessness of our fathers of that cursed year: 1915, year written in blood in every Armenian soul!”

“When a tragedy occurs on the other side of the world, we all find out in a matter of hours. But the genocide of 1915, when the Turks massacred 1.5 millions of our Armenian people and the first world Holocaust happened, is still not acknowledged by the Turkish government, nor by the Obama administration, for that matter. How is this possible?” he asks.

This project is in pre-production with an estimated release date of April 2015. Flawless Production is currently establishing partners within the industry to join this story.

The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres and deportations, involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors.

Present-day Turkey denies the fact of the Armenian Genocide, justifying the atrocities as “deportation to secure Armenians”. Only a few Turkish intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and scholar Taner Akcam, speak openly about the necessity to recognize this crime against humanity.

The Armenian Genocide was recognized by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, Italy, 45 U.S. states, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Argentina, Belgium, Austria, Wales, Switzerland, Canada, Poland, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, the Vatican, Luxembourg, Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Sweden, Venezuela, Slovakia, Syria, Vatican, as well as the European Parliament and the World Council of Churches.