26 June, Instituto Cervantes de Tokio: Screamers Director Carla Garapedian
Screamers
Director Carla Garapedian Visits
Director Carla Garapedian will be in
Screamers, an
impassioned synthesis of concert film and political expose, tours with
Grammy-award winning rock band System of a Down on its intensely personal
campaign to stop genocide. Chronicling
the band’s efforts to persuade both the British and
Dr. Garapedian is the only American ever to anchor BBC World News. She holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and began her journalistic career as a correspondent for NBC before moving on to become a director and anchor at the BBC. Described recently by the L.A. Times as ”documenting truth in dangerous places,” she has since been involved writing, producing and directing award-winning documentaries on Afghani women in Lifting the Veil, Russian war crimes in Chechnya in Dying for the President, starvation and cannibalism in North Korea in Children of the Secret State, and the Iranian student movement in Iran Undercover, which won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award as part of PBS’s Frontline World series.
http://www.screamersmovie.com/
Praise for Screamers …
“Invigorating and articulate”
The New York
Times
“Genius”
The Village
Voice
“Eye-opening”
The LA
Times
“A brilliant film. Everyone should see it.”
Larry King, CNN
Best Non-Fiction Film Selection 2006/7
Newsweek
