ADVISORY/Film Foundation Premieres Film about Germany's Role in Armenian Genocide on Worldwide Day of Commemoration.

Entertainment Editors/News Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday (April 24)

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   Film Also Foreshadows World War II Holocaust Using Rare Footage,
              Experts and Eyewitnesses to Recount Horrors

WHO:    Armenian-born film director J. Michael Hagopian, chairman,
        Armenian Film Foundation

WHAT:   The Armenian Film Foundation will mark the 88th
        commemoration of the Armenian Genocide with an advance press
        screening of its new film "Germany and The Secret Genocide."
        As the second installment in the "Witnesses" trilogy, the film
        eerily foreshadows the World War II Holocaust as it recounts
        how Germany stood silently by in 1915 while Armenians in
        Turkey were slaughtered and their deaths covered up and
        denied. Some of the Germans who were complicit during the
        Armenian Genocide later served under Hitler in World II.

        April 24, 1915, was the first day Armenians featured in the
        film were loaded onto railroad cars and taken to locations in
        Turkey where they were executed.

WHEN:   Thursday, April 24, 2003
        7 p.m.

WHERE:  Eastman Kodak Screening Room
        6700 Santa Monica Blvd. (at Las Palmas)
        Los Angeles

BACKGROUND:

        The film will premiere for the general public on Thursday, May
        15. The event is being sponsored by The George Ignatius
        Foundation, which was created by the late Armenian benefactor
        to promote Armenian history and culture.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

        For more information about this film, photos or to attend the
        screening, please call Dawn Pace at 323/466-3445.