My Next Project

Hi there, guess who’s back ? =)
It’s been a while since I wrote a personal update, but now is the time you all love. [Cough].
Okay, so, I’ve been working on a much anticipated project, previously called Unheard Voices, now called Yergat, for the past 3 years. Ideas come and go. A lot had happened but I did not mess around with the project and decided to keep it until my financial and promotional back is covered. I believe that the time is close by and I need to pick up with the project. I’ve seen many Turkish documentaries against the “Armenian claims” being promoted on random websites online, and I think it is time we show them who we are. I think it is time to also remind our selves of who we are.

Fellow non-Armenian readers, you might get lost here, but I need you to stick with me as well. My idea of a documentary is not the usual historical facts, but today’s Armenians’ point of view. The life we live now. The hiphop fan and the punk rockstar’s ideas generated into this documentary. We are no longer eye-witnesses like our grandparents were, but we definitely have a culture we proudly represent. A culture we always incorporate in our daily lives and work. We represent our history through art, whether we intend to or not.

I have a strong vision of where this documentary is going, and I need your help supporting it. Yergat is not sponsored. I do not believe in companies paying me a specific amount of money in order to mention their names or say things in support of them. Yergat will be a free independent documentary based on what the camera sees, not on what I aim the camera at. So if that’s the purpose, and you’re doing it for the cause, you’re more than welcome to donate and sponsor Yergat.

Please spread the word and start helping me out. If you take out your credit card and donate $1, it could do so much for Yergat. There are about half a million Armenians in California alone, if 5,000 people from the 500,000 (1%) donated $1 each, I can still have a movie to showcase. I can still make this documentary into a reality. I can still produce something for the non-Armenian to watch and learn. Yergat needs about $6,000 to stand up on its own feet. I updated www.yergat.com and added a widget [the same as you see below this article] and it already received $10. 1/600 is our progress. I believe hand in hand we can all make it. Please contribute. Buying these equipment will not limit me to Yergat only but many documentaries and works to come.

The Armenian Genocide should get recognized. 1,500,000 Armenians perished during that period, and the world should know.

Thank you,
Your support is highly appreciated.
Apo Avedissian