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GOLDEN APRICOT: ARMENIA'S BEST KNOWN FILM FESTIVAL, TAKE 7
Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
22.06.10
The seventh Golden Apricot International Film Festival is less than
three weeks away and organizers are promising a week of about 120
films, 44 of which will be vying for prizes.
About 500 applications from 75 countries were received for this year's
fest and first-time participants will include Jordan, Nicaragua,
Venezuela and Costa Rica in the increasing popular film festival.
Films will be shown in three halls of the Moscow Cinema, two halls
of the Puppet Theater, the Nairi Movie House, Narekatsi Union, and
at the Club restaurant.
Seventeen of the films that will be in competition are by
Armenian filmmakers, and seven of these 17 films are those made
by Diaspora-based Armenians. Among well-known films to feature at
the festival will be Vigen Chaldranyan's "Maestro", Suren Babayan's
"Don't Look Into the Mirror", Edgar Baghdasaryan's "From Ararat to
Zion" and others.
Inna Sahakyan will participate in the festival for the first time.
Together with her co-author Arman Yeritsyan she is presenting
"Armenia's Last Rope-Walker", a story about elderly people in which
they try to save the old art of rope-walking.
"We are happy that this story will become available to many through
the festival, and also glad that Golden Apricot is already recognized
among numerous film festivals in the world," the 32-year-old filmmaker
told ArmeniaNow.
As in 2009, Golden Apricot will feature three categories of
competition -- international feature films, documentaries and the
Armenian panorama. There will be five panels of jury at the festival,
including judges from the International Federation of Film Critics
and the Ecumenical Jury.
Golden Apricot frequently cooperates with Turkish filmmakers, including
this year's Armenia-Turkey workshop organized jointly with the Istanbul
Anadolu Kyultur organization as part of the Istanbul International
Film Festival.
Now there is a Turkish filmmaker among 21 jury members in Golden
Apricot's International Feature Films category. (Semih Kaplanoglu is
known for his 52-part TV series "Sehnaz Tango").
VivaCell-MTS mobile communications operator is the general sponsor
again this year, and the Ministry of Culture has allotted about
$134,00.
According to the official press release of the festival, tribute will
be paid to several devotees of the Armenian cinema. In particular,
the festival will celebrate the 85th birthday anniversary of film
director Henrik Malyan, the 80th birthday of actors Mher Lazarian
and Khoren Abrahamyan, the 75th birthday of cameraman Albert Yavuryan,
as well as the jubilee of 75-year-old actor Armen Jigarkhanyan.
There will be special tributes for two Diaspora-Armenian filmmakers -
French-Armenian Henry Vernoy and Canadian-Armenian Atom Egoyan timed
to their 90th and 50th birthdays, respectively. Egoyan will be present
again this year at the Golden Apricot.
From: A. Papazian
Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
22.06.10
The seventh Golden Apricot International Film Festival is less than
three weeks away and organizers are promising a week of about 120
films, 44 of which will be vying for prizes.
About 500 applications from 75 countries were received for this year's
fest and first-time participants will include Jordan, Nicaragua,
Venezuela and Costa Rica in the increasing popular film festival.
Films will be shown in three halls of the Moscow Cinema, two halls
of the Puppet Theater, the Nairi Movie House, Narekatsi Union, and
at the Club restaurant.
Seventeen of the films that will be in competition are by
Armenian filmmakers, and seven of these 17 films are those made
by Diaspora-based Armenians. Among well-known films to feature at
the festival will be Vigen Chaldranyan's "Maestro", Suren Babayan's
"Don't Look Into the Mirror", Edgar Baghdasaryan's "From Ararat to
Zion" and others.
Inna Sahakyan will participate in the festival for the first time.
Together with her co-author Arman Yeritsyan she is presenting
"Armenia's Last Rope-Walker", a story about elderly people in which
they try to save the old art of rope-walking.
"We are happy that this story will become available to many through
the festival, and also glad that Golden Apricot is already recognized
among numerous film festivals in the world," the 32-year-old filmmaker
told ArmeniaNow.
As in 2009, Golden Apricot will feature three categories of
competition -- international feature films, documentaries and the
Armenian panorama. There will be five panels of jury at the festival,
including judges from the International Federation of Film Critics
and the Ecumenical Jury.
Golden Apricot frequently cooperates with Turkish filmmakers, including
this year's Armenia-Turkey workshop organized jointly with the Istanbul
Anadolu Kyultur organization as part of the Istanbul International
Film Festival.
Now there is a Turkish filmmaker among 21 jury members in Golden
Apricot's International Feature Films category. (Semih Kaplanoglu is
known for his 52-part TV series "Sehnaz Tango").
VivaCell-MTS mobile communications operator is the general sponsor
again this year, and the Ministry of Culture has allotted about
$134,00.
According to the official press release of the festival, tribute will
be paid to several devotees of the Armenian cinema. In particular,
the festival will celebrate the 85th birthday anniversary of film
director Henrik Malyan, the 80th birthday of actors Mher Lazarian
and Khoren Abrahamyan, the 75th birthday of cameraman Albert Yavuryan,
as well as the jubilee of 75-year-old actor Armen Jigarkhanyan.
There will be special tributes for two Diaspora-Armenian filmmakers -
French-Armenian Henry Vernoy and Canadian-Armenian Atom Egoyan timed
to their 90th and 50th birthdays, respectively. Egoyan will be present
again this year at the Golden Apricot.
From: A. Papazian