Carla Garapedian (Armenian: Քարլա Կարապետեան; born 27 February 1961)[1] is a filmmaker, director, writer and broadcaster.

[3] She earned her undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science before working as a producer, director and foreign correspondent based in Britain.

Her first documentary, Cooking the Books (1989, Channel 4 Dispatches), was a controversial investigation of the Thatcher government's alleged manipulation of official statistics.

Films included Europe's Nuclear Nightmare (1991), an investigation of East Europe's most dangerous nuclear reactors, post-Chernobyl; A Short Break in the Interference (1993), with Donald Woods, examining radical changes in South African broadcasting; and Aliens Go Home (1994) unraveling the immigration backlash in California following the 1994 earthquake.

[4] With the advent of smaller digital cameras, Garapedian began making documentaries in areas usually out of reach to journalists.

Working with Hardcash production company,[5] she produced and directed films for Channel 4's investigative series, Dispatches.

A description of this work is partly described in The Los Angeles Times article, "Documenting Truth in Dangerous Places.

[12] At the 2008 Hamburg International Film Festival, Garapedian was asked by a member of the audience about the lessons Germany may have learned from the Armenian genocide.

She confirmed in October 2015, during her discussion at the Hammer Museum with Eric Bogosian, author of Operation Nemesis,[14][15] that she is making a feature film about the trial[16] which has been the subject of a number of books.

Her first documentary, "Cooking the Books" for Dispatches (Channel 4, UK, 1989), was nominated for a Royal Television Society award.

[22] In 2006 "Screamers," co-created and co-produced with Peter McAlevey, shared the American Film Institute Audience Award for Best Documentary.

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.

On April 24, 2016, along with George Clooney, the organization will launch the Aurora Prize, supporting humanitarian projects around the world.

[27] This organization supported the late filmmaker, J. Michael Hagopian, and his 40-year quest to record, on 16mm film, Armenian Genocide survivors around the world.

[31] The Shoah Foundation, founded by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, created the Visual History Archive, to make available 52,000 Holocaust testimonies for research and education.