Armenian Genocide documentary “Intent to Destroy” directed by Joe Berlinger has received the “Humanism in the Modern World” award at the 14th Independent American-Russian Documentary Film Festival (RUSDOCFILMFEST) in New York, Public Radio of Armenia reports.
Over 30 films were screened as part of the Free World, Eternal Values, and Fresh Look programs. The films were made with support from independent studios and producers from eight countries.
“Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial and Depiction” – the film-in-film produced by Joe Berlinger, Chip Rosenbloom and Eric Esrailian depicts the century of sophisticated denial campaigns by the Turkish government that perpetrated the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, and features Atom Egoyan, Christian Bale, Mike Medavoy, Eric Bogosian, Serj Tankian, Angela Sarafian, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and the former US Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans.