The community is invited to attend a theatrical screening of “Aurora’s Sunrise” on Wednesday, April 17, at 7 p.m., at the Albert & Dana Broccoli Theatre. Registration is required.
The screening is being put on by Outside the Box Office, the Armenian Students’ Association, the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies and the Armenian Film Society, which is a Glendale-based nonprofit organization that shines a spotlight on Armenian films and filmmakers.
“Aurora’s Sunrise” is directed by Inna Sahaky, written by Sahakyan, Kerstin Meyer-Beetz, and Peter Liakhov, produced by Sahakyan, Vardan Hovhannisyan, Juste Michailinaite, Kestutis Drazdauskas, Christian Beetz and Eric Esrailian.
The documentary-style film is about a genocide survivor, Aurora Mardiganian, who becomes a silent movie star. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.
The screening, which is 96 minutes long, will be followed with a Q&A panel with Sahakyan and Shushan Karapetian, director of the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies; Ted Braun, USC Joseph Campbell Endowed Chair in Cinematic Ethics; Armen Karaoghlanian, co-founder of Armenian Film Society; and Dr. Myrna Douzjian, lecturer of Armenian studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.
The screening is free of charge and open to the public. A reservation confirmation will automatically be sent to participant’s email accounts upon successfully making an RSVP through this website: cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=71406. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
First published in the April 6 print issue of the Glendale News-Press.
