American director Edwin Avaness is set to launch a documentary film project about the interference of Turkish state in the United States to impede the production of the film, based on the book by Franz Werfel, The 40 Days of Musa Dagh, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net.

In 2006, actor Sylvester Stallone had expressed a desire to direct a film based on the novel. But following a campaign by the powerful Turkish association ASIMED, Stallone had to give up, as did Mel Gibson in 2009. In France, Henri Verneuil himself had tried to edit the film.

For this exceptional project of universal historic significance, the designer and director Edwin Avaness needs the financial support of the community to complete the project which is the first demonstration of the Turkish state denial. The names of generous donors will be credited to the screen. The funds will be collected by the association, nonprofit, Friends of Armenian Cultural Treasures.