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(Redirected from Screamers (documentary)) 2006 American film by Carla Garapedian

Screamers
Film poster
Directed by	Carla Garapedian
Produced by	Peter McAlevey
Starring	Serj Tankian Daron Malakian Shavo Odadjian John Dolmayan
Cinematography	Charles Rose
Edited by	William Yarhaus
Music by	Jeff Atmajian System of a Down
Distributed by	Maya Releasing
Release date	December 8, 2006 (2006-12-08)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Armenian

Screamers is a 2006 documentary film directed by Carla Garapedian, conceived by Peter McAlevey and Garapedian and produced by McAlevey. The film explores why genocides have occurred in modern day history and features talks from Serj Tankian, lead vocalist of the American alternative metal band System of a Down, whose grandfather is an Armenian genocide survivor, as well as from human-rights activist, journalist, and professor, Samantha Power, as well as various other people involved with genocides in Rwanda and Darfur. Screamers also examines genocide denial in current-day Turkey, and the neutral trend that the United States generally holds towards genocide.

Screamers is now shown in Armenian Youth organizations to explain and clarify the Armenian genocide, and raise awareness. Also, it is used to educate Armenians and others about the genocide.

Contributors

(in order of appearance)

Samantha Power, Professor, Harvard University, Pulitzer prize-winning author, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Serj Tankian, Vocalist, System of a Down
John Dolmayan, Drummer, System of a Down
Daron Malakian, Guitarist, System of a Down
Shavo Odadjian, Bassist, System of a Down
Aram Hamparian, Armenian National Committee
Stepan Haytayan, Grandfather of Serj Tankian, 96-year-old survivor of Armenian genocide
Maritza Ohanesian, 100-year-old survivor of Armenian genocide
Guy Simonian, Community Activist
Michael Hagopian, Filmmaker, "Voices from the Lake", "Germany and the Secret Genocide", "The Forgotten Genocide"
Verjin Mempreian, 96-year old survivor of Armenian genocide
Greg Topalian, Freeman College, UK
Henry Morgenthau III, Grandson of Henry Morgenthau, Sr., U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman empire
Lord Shannon, House of Lords
Lord Avebury, House of Lords
Baroness Cox, Deputy Speaker, House of Lords
Charles Tannock, MEP, Conservative, European Parliament
Tom Tsvann, Professor, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Amsterdam
Peter Galbraith, Former U.S. Senate Staff
Vartkes Yeghiayan, "The Case of Soghomon Tehlirian" Author
Sibel Edmonds, Former FBI translator
Taner Akçam, Turkish historian and dissident
Hrant Dink, Agos Newspaper, Istanbul. Assassinated by a Turkish nationalist shortly after the premiere of Screamers, in which he was interviewed about Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide.
Appo Jabarian, Editor, USA Armenian Life Speaking at UCLA conference
Ara Sarafian, Gomidas Institute
Adam Schiff, U.S. Congressman
Salih Booker, Africa Action

Response

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.
Ken Hachikian, chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America, described the documentary as a "powerful contribution to the anti-genocide movement."

Awards

In 2006, Screamers won the AFI Audience Award for Best Documentary.

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External links

v t e System of a Down
Serj Tankian Daron Malakian Shavo Odadjian John Dolmayan Ontronik "Andy" Khachaturian
Studio albums	System of a Down Toxicity Steal This Album! Mezmerize Hypnotize
Singles	"Sugar" "Spiders" "Chop Suey!" "Toxicity" "Aerials" "Innervision" "Boom!" "B.Y.O.B." "Question!" "Hypnotize" "Lonely Day" "Protect the Land" / "Genocidal Humanoidz"
Tours	Reunion Tour Wake Up the Souls Tour Linkin Park and Friends: Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington
Related	Discography Axis of Justice "Charades" Cool Gardens Glaring Through Oblivion Screamers Serart Scars on Broadway Achozen Buckethead & Friends The F.C.C. Mt. Helium Fair to Midland Arto Tunçboyacıyan
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v t e Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian Dan Monti Larry "Ler" LaLonde
Studio albums	Elect the Dead Imperfect Harmonies Harakiri Orca Symphony No. 1 Jazz-Iz-Christ
Live albums	Elect the Dead Symphony
EPs	Lie Lie Live Imperfect Remixes Elasticity
Singles	"Empty Walls" "Lie Lie Lie" "Sky Is Over" "The Charade" "Figure It Out"
Other songs	"Mein"
Related artists	System of a Down Flying Cunts of Chaos Buckethead & Friends
Related articles	Discography Axis of Justice Cool Gardens Glaring Through Oblivion Screamers Serart Serjical Strike Records
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Works about the Armenian genocide

Books

Fiction

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933)
- Jewish response
- Gabriel Bagradian
The Story of the Last Thought (1989)

Non-fiction

The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire ("The Blue Book") (1916)
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (1918)
Ravished Armenia (1918)
The Memoirs of Naim Bey (Naim-Andonian document) (1919)
Armenian Golgotha (1922)
The Road from Home (1979)
Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century (1981)
A Problem from Hell (2002)
America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (2003)
The Burning Tigris (2003)
The Great Game of Genocide (2005)
A Shameful Act (2006)
The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey (2006)
The Remaining Documents of Talaat Pasha (2008)
The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History (2011)
The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity (2011)
The Making of Modern Turkey (2011)
Denial of Violence (2015)
Goodbye, Antoura (2015)
Operation Nemesis (2015)
They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (2015)
Justifying Genocide (2016)
Killing Orders (2016)
Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (2018)
Dark Pasts (2018)
The Thirty-Year Genocide (2019)
The Great Crime: An Aintab Diary (2020)

Films

Ravished Armenia/The Auction of Souls (1919)
Nahapet (1977)
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1982)
Back to Ararat (1988)
Ararat (2002)
My Son Shall Be Armenian (2004)
The Armenian Genocide (2006)
Screamers (2006)
The Blue Book, Political Truth or Historical Fact (2009)
Aghet – Ein Völkermord (2010)
The Cut (2014)
Orphans of the Genocide (2014)
1915 (2015)
Map of Salvation (2015)
The Promise (2016)
Intent to Destroy (2017)
They Shall Not Perish (2017)
Aurora's Sunrise (2022)

Accused of denialism	The Water Diviner (2014) The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
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