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Screamers
Poster for the film Screamers
Directed byCarla Garapedian
Produced byNick De Grunwald
StarringSerj Tankian
Daron Malakian
Shavo Odadjian
John Dolmayan
CinematographyCharles Rose
Edited byWilliam Yarhaus
Music byJeff Atmajian
System of a Down
Distributed byMaya Releasing
Release dates
United States December 8, 2006
Running time
89 min.
LanguagesEnglish
Armenian

Screamers is a 2006 documentary by director Carla Garapedian. The film explores why genocides have recurred into the modern day, and involves the band System of a Down, Serj Tankian's grandfather (who is an Armenian Genocide survivor), the human rights activist and journalist Professor Samantha Power, and various people involved with genocides in Rwanda and Darfur. Screamers also examines genocide denial in current day Turkey, and the trend of neutrality that the United States generally holds towards genocide.

Contributors

(in order of appearance)

Response

File:Hrant Dink in Screamers.jpg
Hrant Dink was among those featured in the film

Critical reaction

  • Screamers generally received good to average reviews from critics. Metacritic assign it a score of 55 / 100 based on a weighted average of more than 10 newspaper reviews. The New York Post's Kyle Smith was the only mentioned person to give Screamers a below average score, rating it a 12/100, indicating an extremely negative review. [1]
  • Ken Hachikian, chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America, described the documentary as a "powerful contribution to the anti-genocide movement."[2]
  • The UN Secretary General requested to remove a sentence referring to a million Armenians being murdered during the Ottoman Empire from the Aegis Trust exhibition “Lessons from Rwanda,” and the exhibition’s subsequent cancellation [3]
  • Since the films making, journalist Hrant Dink, who was interviewed for the documentary was murdered.

Awards

  • In 2006, Screamers won the AFI Audience Award for Best Documentary. [4]

References

  1. ^ New York Post - Say Genocide, and Armenia it!
  2. ^ ANTI-GENOCIDE DOCUMENTARY ‘SCREAMERS’ ===PREMIERES AT AFI FILM FESTIVAL===
  3. ^ Serj Tankian and Carla Garapedian denounce cancellation of UN Genocide Exhibition Mentioning Armenians. Los Angeles (Business Wire)
  4. ^ AFI FEST 2006 Announces Award Winners
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