Jakob Michael Hagopian (Armenian: Մայքլ Հակոբ Հակոբյան; October 20, 1913 – December 10, 2010)[1] 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.
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.
[4] In 2004 Hagopian's "Germany and the Secret Genocide" documentary became the winner of US International Film & Video Festival.
[5] The pre-release version of Hagopian's 58-minute documentary "The River Ran Red" opened the Eighth Annual Arpa International Film Festival on Oct. 24, 2008 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California, four days after Hagopian’s 95th birthday.