My name is Mariam Avetisyan, and I am an award-winning film director and journalist from Artsakh, maker of the documentary "The Desire To Live", which has entered over 100 film festivals around the world and won over 120 awards and gives people of Artsakh an opportunity to tell their story to the whole world. 
I plan to start a new documentary project about the Anti-Armenian pogroms in Azerbaijan, which resulted in massacres and ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Azerbaijan and started in 1988. Those came as a direct response from Soviet Azerbaijan to the hundreds of thousands of peaceful Armenian demonstrators urging the Kremlin to allow Nagorno-Karabakh to reunite with Armenia. 
The documentary will tell the story of eyewitnesses and survivors of the 1988-90 pogroms, which eventually escalated into a full-blown war when Soviet Azerbaijani military forces invaded Nagorno-Karabakh to bring its freedom-seeking population under Baku's control. 
Furthermore, I will argue that Artsakh cannot be a part of Azerbaijan, otherwise the whole story would repeat itself. The only road connecting Artsakh with Armenia is already blocked by Azerbaijan, demonstrating its continued ethnic cleansing in Artsakh.
For this new and future projects, I need your help to acquire some equipment to continue filming and documenting the stories of survivors independently. From now on, I am a one-woman-show, doing all the prep, production and post-production myself.
All my work will be available to watch for free for everyone.