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Oyage to Amasia to Screen at Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Voyage to Amasia, a new documentary film by Randy Bell and Eric V. Hachikian, will have its Armenian premiere at the Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Wednesday, July 11 at 6PM, in the Moscow Cinema Small Hall in Yerevan. The film had its world premiere at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto in December, where it won the prize for Best Documentary. It has also screened at the Minneapolis International Film Festival and the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.

Voyage to Amasia documents composer Eric Hachikian’s return to his ancestral home – Amasia, Turkey – nearly 100 years after Ottoman soldiers deported his grandmother, Helen Shushan, during the Armenian Genocide. The film is set to Eric’s piano trio of the same name, which provided the initial inspiration for the documentary. Voyage to Amasia traces a path through the past, honoring Eric’s relationship with his grandmother and uncovering what her family’s life in Turkey might have been like. It also explores how the events of nearly a century ago continue to strain the relationship between Armenians and Turks today. Inspired by one family’s story, the filmmakers embark on their own journey in the hopes of finding a greater understanding between two peoples still at odds.
The Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival was established in 2004 in Yerevan, the capital of the Republic of Armenia. The Festival’s theme is “Crossroads of Cultures and Civilizations”, and screens films representing diverse ethnic groups, religions, and nations that depict the human experience, the daily lives of people, ordinary and extraordinary, their troubles and their joys, as they try to find meaning in a changing world. The full festival schedule can be found here: www.gaiff.am/en/films/ More information on the Voyage to Amasia screening is here: www.gaiff.am/en/films/voyagetoamasia/
Randy Bell is a Washington, DC-based independent filmmaker. His documentary films, which explore subjects as diverse as American popular music, mid-century European modernist architecture, and the AIDS orphan crisis in Kenya, have won awards from the Cleveland International Film Festival, the New England Film and Video Festival, and the Ivy Film Festival. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 2000, and his Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2010.
Eric V. Hachikian is an Armenian-American composer whose music has been hailed by the New York Times as “lovely and original.” His compositions and orchestrations can be heard in a variety of major motion pictures, network television shows, and national and international ad campaigns. They have been performed Off-Broadway, at Carnegie Hall, at Boston’s Symphony Hall, and The Getty in Los Angeles. A classically-trained composer, as well as self-taught DJ and perpetual student of world music, Eric’s musical style has no boundaries, and his multi-genre interests result in a unique and personal sound.
If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Randy Bell & Eric Hachikian, please call Eric at  646 797 7603 or email him at vta@voyagetoamasia.com

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