“Historic Armenia” – Peter Musurlian documentary on Western Armenia
Nominated for a 2015 Los Angeles Press Club Award for Best Documentary, this film first aired on Horizon Armenian TV on October 1, 2014, as a collaboration between Globalist Films and the news department at Horizon Armenian TV.
[If you still use DVDs, (or know someone who does) the 40-minute film is available on DVD at abrilbooks.com]
In April 2015, the documentary was shown several times on KLCS-TV, a PBS station headquartered in Los Angeles. With a reach into 16 million households, it was estimated 60,000 saw the film on KLCS.
The film follows a group of Armenian-American tourists, led by pioneering tour guide, Armen Aroyan, throughout Eastern Turkey, to visit cities, towns, and villages that were home to more than two million Armenians 100 years ago, before the Armenian Genocide, that began on April 24, 1915.
Accompanying the tourists on their pilgrimage, was UCLA Professor Emeritus Richard Hovannisian, considered the founding father of Armenian Studies programs in the United States.
Shot, reported, written, narrated, and edited by two-time Los Angeles Area Emmy-award winning journalist Peter Musurlian, this unique film contains reporting and video never-before-seen on major-market American television, in this case: Los Angeles.
In addition to his two Los Angeles Area Emmys, one in 2015 and, his most notable in 2013, for a critically-acclaimed one-man-band overseas documentary, “Burbank’s African Sister City,” Musurlian has received nine Emmy nominations and has won 24 RTNA Golden Mikes, awarded by the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California, in 10 unique categories, such as: reporting, videography, and editing. He’s also a six-time nominee for a Los Angeles Press Club Award, winning Third Place, in the Best Documentary category, for his 2015 Armenian Genocide documentary, “The 100-Year-Old Survivor.”
A complete list of awards can be found on the LinkedIn page of Peter Musurlian.
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