INTENT TO DESTROY Directed By Joe Berlinger To Debut On iTunes

Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger's powerful documentary INTENT TO DESTROY: Death, Denial & Depiction, which was produced by Survival Pictures, RadicalMedia, and Third Eye Motion Picture Company in association with Bloom Project will premiere on iTunes on February 1st. The highly engrossing film-within-a film centers on the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and emerged as one of the most critically acclaimed films at this year's Tribeca and Hot Docs Film Festivals.

Berlinger's thirteenth feature-length documentary embeds with a historic feature film on the set of Terry George's THE PROMISE as a powerful lens through which to explore the reality of the Armenian Genocide and the subsequent campaign of Turkish-led denial and Hollywood censorship.

"After a very robust festival run and a very rewarding specialty theatrical release, I am thrilled to get this film out exclusively on iTunes prior to its television broadcast later this year," said Director Joe Berlinger.

INTENT TO DESTROY is a timely reckoning with the large-scale suppression of a historical tragedy. Berlinger confronts the fraught task of shedding light on the Armenian Genocide - whose witnesses and DESCENDANTS are still fighting to be officially acknowledged as such by the international community - how it was carried out during World War I as the reign of the Ottoman EMPIRE drew to a close, and how it laid the groundwork for the Genocides that followed. Historians, scholars, and high-profile filmmakers come together in Berlinger's cinematic exploration of the tangled web of responsibility that has driven a century of denial by the Turkish government and its strategic allies, including the United States of America. INTENT TO DESTROY is available for pre-order on iTunes now.

Academy Award® and seven-time Emmy® nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger's films include BROTHER'S KEEPER, THE PARADISE LOST Trilogy, METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER, CRUDE and UNDER AFRICAN SKIES. Berlinger's most recent film, INTENT TO DESTROY pulls back the curtain on mass murder censorship in Hollywood due to U.S. government pressure to appease a strategic ally by embedding with a historic feature film production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century. Last summer, Netflix released Berlinger's TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT YOUR GURU, a vérité film that goes behind the scenes of the mega once-a-year seminar "Date With Destiny." Earlier this year, Berlinger's four-part docu-series KILLING RICHARD GLOSSIP, which tells the haunting story of a former motel manager sentenced to die for orchestrating a murder that he swears he had nothing to do with, generated one of Investigation Discovery's highest ratings ever. This summer saw the premiere of Berlinger's latest project, an eight-part documentary series for Spike TV, "Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio," about the deaths and disappearances of six young women in southern Ohio - a tragic saga shrouded in a mystery that includes a dark underbelly of a struggling Midwest region plagued by drug and sex trafficking, and a system that seems to have failed to protect these women. Premiering later in 2017 on SundanceTV is Berlinger's four-part true crime documentary series, COLD BLOODED: THE CLUTTER FAMILY MURDERS, a reexamination of the crime chronicled in Truman Capote's landmark book and Oscar®-nominated film, IN COLD BLOOD. Berlinger is currently directing EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE, a feature film about the life and crimes of Ted Bundy, starring Zac Efron, Lilly Collins, Kaya Scodelario and John Malkovich.

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