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"MARGARET MEAD: FILM AND VIDEO" FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS FOR THE FIRST TIME HELD IN ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Dec 12 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Margaret Mead: Film and
Video" annual festival of documenaty films opened on December 10 at
the Narekatsi Art Union of Yerevan. It is for the first time being
held in Armenia, owing to the Association of Film Critics and Film
Journalists of Armenia. 12 films will be presented during the two-day
festival. 8 of them are works of foreign, and 4 ones are works of
Armenian directors. Works of all the 8 foreign directors are prize
winner films. Opening the festival, Association Chairwoman Susanna
Haroutiunian mentioned that this festival founded on the occasion
of the 75th birthday anniversary of Margaret Mead, the leading
anthropologist of the Americal Museum of Natural History, and on the
occasion of the 50th anniversary of her activity at the museum has
spoken in the language of cinematography continuously for 30 years
about numerous issues having vital importance for the mankind. This
festival founded in 1977 in New York is aimed to arise global problems
existing in the world as well as to organize disputes and discussions
about those problems.
Noyan Tapan
Dec 12 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Margaret Mead: Film and
Video" annual festival of documenaty films opened on December 10 at
the Narekatsi Art Union of Yerevan. It is for the first time being
held in Armenia, owing to the Association of Film Critics and Film
Journalists of Armenia. 12 films will be presented during the two-day
festival. 8 of them are works of foreign, and 4 ones are works of
Armenian directors. Works of all the 8 foreign directors are prize
winner films. Opening the festival, Association Chairwoman Susanna
Haroutiunian mentioned that this festival founded on the occasion
of the 75th birthday anniversary of Margaret Mead, the leading
anthropologist of the Americal Museum of Natural History, and on the
occasion of the 50th anniversary of her activity at the museum has
spoken in the language of cinematography continuously for 30 years
about numerous issues having vital importance for the mankind. This
festival founded in 1977 in New York is aimed to arise global problems
existing in the world as well as to organize disputes and discussions
about those problems.