by T | Jun 13, 2019 | news
On a very rainy day in Istanbul, we went to visit the cozy offices of Açık Radyo to talk with the editor of Agos newspaper Yetvart Danzikyan. It was the day after our very emotional screening and poetry performance at the Hrant Dink Foundation, and we were all quite...
by T | May 9, 2019 | news
Taniel had an exceptionally warm welcome at Centrala in Birmingham for our film’s screening, accompanied by a panel discussion about history, language, poetry and identity; and how sad it is that the events of 1915 are still painfully relevant today. Screening...
by T | Aug 20, 2018 | news, Press
Following a sold out screening of Taniel, along with Levon Parian’s Crows of the Desert on 19 August 2018, both filmmakers answered some questions at Sydney Armenian Film Festival, hosted by Noric...
by admin | Nov 5, 2017 | blog
When I first heard about “Taniel”, I wanted to be a part of the production. Taniel Varoujan is one of my favourite poets and he still has an important place in Armenian culture. When you get his art and the way he uses his pen to create a surreal world,...
by admin | Jul 12, 2017 | blog
Director Garo Berberian was looking for a piece of poetry to connect the narrative strands of the film shaped by Varoujan’s poetry through the 5 scenes: Arrest, Incarceration, Train, Prison and Death, and he commissioned Ben Hodgson to write a poem. The poem has the...