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I AM NOT ALONE Documentary Films

Description

Talent attending: Garin Hovannisian (Director), Alec Mouhibian (Producer)

In March 2018, Nikol Pashinyan, a former journalist and opposition member of the Armenian parliament, began a protest march from Armenia’s second largest city to the capital; only a couple of dozen supporters joined him. But by the time he reached Yerevan, the crowd had grown into the thousands. Uniting the protesters was President Serzh Sargsyan’s bold move, after serving the maximum number of terms in office, to hold onto power as Prime Minister. Soon, the streets of Yerevan became the battleground for an unprecedented, democratic, non-violent revolution.

In this fascinating, edge-of-your-seat documentary, filmmaker Garin Hovannisian captures every dramatic twist and turn and offers unprecedented access to the grassroots movement that dared to challenge a corrupt regime, as well as the regime’s political and military leaders themselves. –Ken Jacobson

Bios

Garin Hovannisian has been an active participant in Armenia’s struggle for freedom and has written about it for The Atlantic, The New York Times and in his memoir “Family of Shadows.” He is the co-writer/director of the feature film 1915 (2015), a psychological mystery set 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, which was praised by the Los Angeles Times as a “a high-minded version of BIRDMAN…a creative way to do justice to such a monumental topic.” In 2017 he founded Creative Armenia, a global arts foundation that discovers, develops and produces innovative talent.