Garapedian has received numerous awards for her piercing documentaries . Her first documentary , " Cooking the Books " for '' Dispatches '' ( Channel 4 , UK , 1989 ) , was nominated for a Royal Television Society award . She is the recipient of the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award ( Armin T. Wegner Society ) , and the Clara Barton Medal ( National Academy of Sciences , Armenian Genocide Museum Institute ) . '' Germany and the Secret Genocide '' , a film she co-wrote with J. Michael Hagopian , won the Gold Camera for History in the U.S. International Film and Video Festival in 2004 . In 2006 " Screamers , " co-created and co-produced with Peter McAlevey , shared the American Film Institute Audience Award for Best Documentary . It won the Audience award at the Montreal Human Rights festival , and the Golden Apricot and Ecumenical Jury Award in Yerevan in 2007 . On February 27 , 2009 , AGBU honored Garapedian with GenNext 's " Community Hero award . " Garapedian accepted the award for her film '' Screamers '' , the critically acclaimed documentary about System of a Down 's efforts to raise Armenian Genocide awareness in the minds of mainstream audiences . During her acceptance speech , Garapedian said : After '' Screamers '' , she started to speak about genocide prevention and human rights to university audiences . At the Claremont McKenna Atheneum series , in 2013 , she spoke about " Truth , Denial and the Armenian Genocide . She was the keynote speaker at the 2010 official commemoration of the Armenian genocide at the Massachusetts State Parliament , and the moderator of the '' I am Armenian '' film series at the Hammer Museum in 2015 . Carla Garapedian is one of the individuals recognized in '' 100 Lives '' an initiative that aims to " show gratitude through action . " On April 24 , 2016 , along with George Clooney , the organization will launch the Aurora Prize , supporting humanitarian projects around the world
Armenian Genocide
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Carla Garapedian