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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS. World famous American pop-singer of Armenian originCher(Cherilyn Sarkisian) attended the special screening of Aurora’s Sunrise, a historical animated documentary filmabout the life of Aurora Mardiganian, an Armenian Genocide survivor, in the IPic Westwood Theaters in Los Angeles on December 7, the National Cinema of Armenia said in a statement.
The pop singer wished success to the film course.
The screening was also attended by movie director Inna Sahakyan and Armenian-American producer Eric Esrailian.
In 2015, during the year of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Zoryan Institute, signed a partnership agreement with Bars Media of Armenia to produce the animated documentary based on the testimony of A. Mardiganian. Aurora’s Sunrise was made possible with the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute Armenia, based on its oral history archives (filmed by the Zoryan Institute on January 29, 1984).
The film isdirected by Inna Sahakyan. It isproducedby Bars Media, led by Vardan Hovhannisyan, Gebrueder Beetz Film produktion 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.
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.