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    Parajanov-Vartanov Institute
    POB 17257
    Beverly Hills, California 90209 USA
    http://institute.parajanov.com

    Beverly Hills Film Festival: www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com
    Hollywood Reporter:
    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/cont ent_display/awards/news/e3id9db7bed8e9402cb8919dc2 e7eaac134

    HOLLYWOOD, CA -- To recognize the underappreciated role women play in
    the lives of artists, the first annual Parajanov-Vartanov Awards will
    be presented to the spouses of the late influential filmmakers Sergei
    Parajanov (1924-1990) and Mikhail Vartanov (1937-2009).

    For his commitment to the independent and underrated cinema, the
    founder of the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Nino Simone, will also be
    honored with the Parajanov-Vartanov Award. The awards will be handed
    out by the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute during the gala awards
    ceremony of the 10th Annual Beverly Hills Film Festival on April 18,
    2010 at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills,
    California.

    The awards ceremony will be preceded at 3pm by a rare showing of
    Vartanov's `Parajanov: The Last Spring' at UCLA in the James Bridges
    Theater, Melnitz Hall, located at 235 Charles E. Young Drive, Los
    Angeles, CA 90095. The screening will be accompanied by a short
    classical music concert and a photography exhibition, I Will Wear Your
    Beret Papa, from the last month's showing at the Condestable Palace in
    Navarra, Spain.

    Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990) is widely regarded as one of the greatest
    masters of cinema and has been called a genius, a master and a
    magician by legends like Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, and Tarkovsky.
    Paradjanov's masterpieces, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964), and
    Sayat Nova or The Color of Pomegranates (1968), often turn up on the
    lists of the best motion pictures of all time.

    Mikhail Vartanov (1937-2009) developed a method of documentary
    filmmaking termed the 'direction of undirected action' and his
    reputation as one of the most important cinematographers,
    documentarians and intellectuals of his generation was cemented by
    such influential documentary films as The Seasons of the Year (1975),
    Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992), and a series of essays including
    The Unmailed Letters.

    Mrs. Parajanov and Mrs. Vartanov - the Ukrainian pedagogue Svetlana
    Sherbatiuk and the Armenian film editor Svetlana Manucharian - have
    stood by their husbands in the difficult times of persecutions and
    significantly contributed to the preservation of these masters'
    oeuvres. Nino Simone founded the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2001
    and resurrected such important forgotten films as D.W. Griffith's `In
    Old California' (1910), Mikhail Vartanov's `Parajanov: The Last
    Spring' (1992), and Eugenio Cappuccio's `Towards the Moon with
    Fellini' (2006).

    "To me...besides...Griffith and Eisenstein, the world cinema has not
    discovered anything revolutionarily new until (Parajanov's) Color of
    Pomegranates" wrote Mikhail Vartanov in 1968. "Vartanov...you posses
    everything an artist needs - mind, kindness, principles, freedom...
    Create... perhaps you're the only friend who compels me to live" said
    Sergei Parajanov in a 1974 letter from Soviet prisons.

    The Parajanov-Vartanov Award presentation and the UCLA screening are
    held in the framework of the 2010 Beverly Hills Film Festival. The
    screening is cosponsored by the UCLA Armenian Studies Program, the
    Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and Culture Studies, the Center for
    Near Eastern Studies, and the Center for European and Eurasian
    Studies.

    Parajanov-Vartanov Institute promotes the artistic legacies of the
    late influential filmmakers Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990) and Mikhail
    Vartanov (1937-2009). Beverly Hills Film Festival was founded in 2001
    to showcase the independent cinema in the renowned city of Beverly
    Hills.

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    For more information, photographs and interviews please contact the
    [email protected].
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