Epress.am News from Armenia
On Nov. 16, from 7 to 9 pm, filmmaker Apo Torosyan will present a selection from his film Voices at Salem State University in Massachusetts, reports the Wicked Local (news from the Watertown Tab & Press).
According to the production company’s website, “Voices is a documentary built around four interviews with survivors of the Armenian and Greek genocide, a span of nine years from 1915 to 1923 when a million and a half people were murdered, tortured, starved and deported by the Turkish government.”
Istanbul-born artist Apo Torosyan, the son of an Armenian father and a Greek mother, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, BFA./MFA in 1968, and emigrated to the US in the same year. After establishing a very successful visual design company, he sold his business in 1986 to dedicate his time to his art. Since then, he has had many solo and group shows all over the US and Europe, and his work has appeared in private and corporate collections in Turkey, Greece, Spain, France, Armenia, Canada, and the US.
Apo is an active member of the Boston Printmakers and the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion on the first genocide of the 20th century.