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Premieres Monday, Oct. 23, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. At 14, Aurora Madriganian survived the horrors of the Armenian Genocide and escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Her newfound fame led to her starring as herself in Auction of Souls, one of Hollywood's earliest blockbusters. Blending storybook animation, video testimony, and rediscovered footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives her forgotten story.

09/05/2023 - The industry section of the major Balkan gathering features a pitching forum, workshops, and a series of talks and master classes taking place in Belgrade from 10-15 May

The Zoryan Institute will host two screenings of the award-winning animated film “Aurora’s Sunrise” at York Cinemas on Friday, May 19, 2023, at seven and 7:30 p.m. The film tells the story of the survival of a 14-year-old girl who lost everything during the Armenian Genocide. “Aurora’s Sunrise” blends footage from the Zoryan Institute’s original 1984 interview of Aurora

YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection, one of the Zoryan Institute’s earliest and most transformative projects, has been added to the Zoryan Institute-AUA Center for Oral History housed at the AGBU Papazian Library. The collection contains over 750 interviews of Armenians who survived the genocide, and these interviews are now accessible to students, faculty members, or researchers at AUA and in Yerevan.

YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection, one of the Zoryan Institute’s earliest and most transformative projects, has been added to the Zoryan Institute-AUA Center for Oral History housed at the AGBU Papazian Library. The collection contains over 750 interviews of Armenians who survived the genocide, and these interviews are now accessible to students, faculty members, or researchers at AUA and in Yerevan.

YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection, one of the Zoryan Institute’s earliest and most transformative projects, has been added to the Zoryan Institute-AUA Center for Oral History housed at the AGBU Papazian Library. The collection contains over 750 interviews of Armenians who survived the genocide, and these interviews are now accessible to students, faculty members, or researchers at AUA and in Yerevan.

YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection, one of the Zoryan Institute’s earliest and most transformative projects, has been added to the Zoryan Institute-AUA Center for Oral History housed at the AGBU Papazian Library. The collection contains over 750 interviews of Armenians who survived the genocide, and these interviews are now accessible to students, faculty members, or researchers at AUA and in Yerevan.

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS. Aurora’s Sunrise, a historical animated documentary film about the life of Aurora Mardiganian, will premiere at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France this week, the Zoryan Institute said in a statement.

YEREVAN, MARCH 29, ARMENPRESS. Eurimages, the cultural support fund of the Council of Europe, has approved funding for Aurora’s Sunrise, a joint Armenian-German film production about Armenian Genocide survivor Aurora Mardiganian.

WEMW Co-Production Forum line-up revealed! 22 new stories from all over the world will be presented at the upcoming Co-Production Forum. 22 film proje...