SYDNEY: Hamazkaine Shant Chapter has announced that film makers Garin Hovannisian and Alec Mouhibian will be in Sydney for the premiere of their feature film ‘1915’.

‘1915’ will premiere in Sydney on 19, 20 and 21 June, at Events Cinema, Macquarie Centre. After the movie screenings there will be Q&A sessions with the film makers. Community talks with the film makers are also planned.

Garin Hovannisian (son of Raffi Hovannisian) is the internationally acclaimed author of the memoir Family of Shadows: Murder, Memory, and Armenian American Dream (Harper Collins). His essays and stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and The Atlantic.

Alec Mouhibian has written essays and stories for Slate, The Weekly Standard, The New Criterion, Washingtonian Magazine, and a variety of other publications. He has also been a fellow of the Moving Picture Institute and a media fellow of the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

Hovannisian and Mouhibian, the founders of Bloodvine Media, have been collaborating on film and literary projects for more than ten years. In 2013, they together produced the groundbreaking ad campaign for the most successful opposition presidential candidacy in the history of the Republic of Armenia.

Most recently, Hovannisian and Mouhibian have featured in the press, including the Sydney Morning Herald, for slamming the Russel Crowe movie ‘The Water Diviner’ for its inaccurate portrayal of the events of 1915 in Anatolia.

‘1915’ is their feature film debut.

‘1915’ has played to packed audiences in the USA, Canada, Russia and Armenia and will travel the globe, coming to Australia from June 19.

The psychological thriller features a who’s who of Armenian cast and crew, including executive producer Raffi K. Hovannisian (Armenia’s first foreign minister), Grammy Award winning composer Serj Tankian (from the band System of a Down), and actors Simon Abkarian (Casino Royale), Angela Sarafyan (Twilight) and Sam Page (House of Cards).

Set in 2015, a mysterious director (Simon Abkarian) is staging a play at the Los Angeles Theatre to honor the victims of the Genocide. But as protesters surround his theatre, and a series of strange accidents spread panic among his producer (Jim Piddock) and actors (Angela Sarafyan, Sam Page, Nikolai Kinski), it appears that the director’s mission is profoundly dangerous, and the ghosts of the past are everywhere.