Documentary Producer Peter Bahlawanian Discusses His Award Winning Film About the Nagorno-Karabakh Region - The Desire to Live

Peter Bahlawanian is the Producer of The Desire to Live a devastating documentary film of an unprovoked attack in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). With brutal honesty the film - directed by Mariam Avetisyan, captures the beginning of the final stage of the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Christian  Armenian population . The Desire to Live is the recipient of 136 awards from 72 film festivals worldwide.

Peter discusses the film and the issues surrounding it with RFG's John Shannon. He  also speaks about the award winning "The Desire to Live" web series which has 3 seasons and 40 episodes in short documentary film format. It is available to watch on YouTube free of charge, with season 4  being released this month - February 2023.

Here's a Link to the film website: https://thedesiretolivedoc.com/

Here's the trailer to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0c96b_ozE

Here's the link to an episode  of The Desire to Live Web Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWaGbFQNRjE