DOCUMENTARY BY CANADIAN ARMENIAN AUTHOR AND FILM DIRECTOR HAKOB GUDSUZIAN ENTITLED “MY SON SHALL BE ARMENIAN” SHOWN IN OTTAWA
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 13 2006
OTTAWA, APRIL 13, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On April 11, the
80-minute documentary by Canadian Armenian author and film director
Hakob Gudsuzian entitled “My Son Shall be Armenian” was shown at the
Canadian Libraries’ and Archives’ Institution, on the initiative of
the Ottawa Armenian Youth Unions and with the assistance of a number
of Canadian Armenian organizations and RA Embassy. The film was
produced by the Canadian National Film Board. Studying the idea of
Armenian originality, the author accompanied by 5 Armenian residents
of Montreal, visited Armenia, the country of his ancestors, for the
purpose of collecting testimony from those who have experienced
the Genocide and for passing the viewers his reflections about
the history and future of the Armenian people spread throughout the
world. As Noyan Tapan was informed from RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Department, after the showing of the film the viewers
among which there were many people of foreign nationalities (Jews,
residents of Rwanda) had an opportunity to ask the author questions.