Jakob Michael Hagopian (Armenian: Õ„Õ¡ÕµÖ„Õ¬ Õ€Õ¡Õ¯Õ¸Õ¢
Õ€Õ¡Õ¯Õ¸Õ¢ÕµÕ¡Õ¶; October 20, 1913 â€" December 10, 2010) was an
Armenian-born American Emmy-nominated filmmaker.Hagopian was born to
an Armenian family on 20 October 1913, in Kharpert, Mamuret-ul-Aziz
Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. In summer of 1915, when the Ottoman soldiers
rampaged through Kharpert, Michael's mother hid her child in a
mulberry bush and prayed that the soldiers would not find him. Both
escaped, and moved to Fresno, California.Hagopian received an
undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and
after receiving a doctorate in international relations from Harvard
University, he went into cinema and founded the Atlantis Films
Company, which produced over fifty documentary films on ethnic
minorities and foreign lands. He won critical acclaim, including two
Emmy nominations for his film The Forgotten Genocide, the first
full-length feature on the Armenian Genocide. The film encompassed
twenty years of research and nearly 400 witness interviews.In 1979,
Hagopian founded the non-profit Armenian Film Foundation dedicated to
preserving the visual and personal histories of the witnesses to the
Armenian Genocide.
Õ€Õ¡Õ¯Õ¸Õ¢ÕµÕ¡Õ¶; October 20, 1913 â€" December 10, 2010) was an
Armenian-born American Emmy-nominated filmmaker.Hagopian was born to
an Armenian family on 20 October 1913, in Kharpert, Mamuret-ul-Aziz
Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. In summer of 1915, when the Ottoman soldiers
rampaged through Kharpert, Michael's mother hid her child in a
mulberry bush and prayed that the soldiers would not find him. Both
escaped, and moved to Fresno, California.Hagopian received an
undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and
after receiving a doctorate in international relations from Harvard
University, he went into cinema and founded the Atlantis Films
Company, which produced over fifty documentary films on ethnic
minorities and foreign lands. He won critical acclaim, including two
Emmy nominations for his film The Forgotten Genocide, the first
full-length feature on the Armenian Genocide. The film encompassed
twenty years of research and nearly 400 witness interviews.In 1979,
Hagopian founded the non-profit Armenian Film Foundation dedicated to
preserving the visual and personal histories of the witnesses to the
Armenian Genocide.
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