Footage of the Armenian Genocide shown in documentary “Intent to Destroy”
BY HOOSHERE BEZDIKIAN
Special to Asbarez and The Armenian Weekly
NEW YORK— New York City Acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s documentary feature about the Armenian Genocide, entitled Intent to Destroy, premiered on Tuesday night at the SVA Theater during the Tribeca Film Festival.
On the heels of the nationwide release of The Promise, Berlinger’s Intent to Destroy takes the viewer behind-the-scenes of the making of Terry George’s epic feature and expertly weaves the modern day depiction of the genocide with scholarly—as well as eye-witness—accounts of its full history and continued denial to this day. By shining a light on the mechanism of denial over the past century—and the aggressive suppression of genocide depiction—he aims to extinguish the notion of any “debateâ€
