Aurora’s Sunrise: American premiere of Armenian Genocide documentary to be held in LA

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 10, ARMENPRESS. The American premiere of Aurora’s Sunrise, a historical animated documentary filmabout the life of Aurora Mardiganian, an Armenian Genocide survivor, will be held in Los Angeles, in the competition program of “Animation Is Film” festival, the Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport said in a news release.

The fill will be screened on October 23, at 18:30, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in LA. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director of the film Inna Sahakyan.

At only 14 years old, in 1915, Aurora faced the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. Within a year, witnessing the deaths of everyone in her family, Aurora had lost everything, and was sold into a Turkish harem. But with extraordinary courage and luck, she escaped to America, where her story became a sensation.

The film isproducedby Bars Media, led by Vardan Hovhannisyan, Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion and Artbox Laisvalaikio Klubas, with the financial partnership of Eurimages, the Zoryan Institute Armenia and the National Cinema Center of Armenia, and with the contributions of the Lithuanian Film Center, ZDF/ARTE, Public TV Armenia, and LRT.