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AGNIESZKA HOLLAND TO BECOME SPECIAL GUEST AT GOLDEN APRICOT FILM FESTIVAL
Panorama.am
12/06/2012
Famous Polish director and scriptwriter Agnieszka Holland has been
invited as an honorary guest to participate in the 9th annual Golden
Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. Her latest film, In
Darkness, will be presented within the framework of non-competition
program "Yerevan Premieres." Also, Agnieszka Holland will be honored
with Parajanov Thaler Lifetime Achievement Award, festival's press
service reported.
Agnieszka Holland was born 28 of November 1948 in Warsaw but went
to Czechoslovakia to study film directing at FAMU in Prague. She
began her film career working in Poland with Krzysztof Zanussi
as assistant director, and Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. She wrote
several scripts with Wajda before directing her own films, which
were soon winning awards at festivals - [Cannes (1980), Gdansk,
Berlin (1981), Montreal (1985,1987), Golden Globe Award (1991)] -
and gaining notoriety as part of the Polish New Wave. Holland is best
known in the United States for her Oscar-Nominated "Angry Harvest",
"Europa, Europa", and Warner Bros. fims: "Olivier, Olivier" and the
"The Secret Garden". In 1994 she has directed "Red Wind" in the United
States, a thriller for television produced by Sydney Pollack, which
was aired on Arte in the series Fallen Angels. A year later she made
"Total Eclipse." In 1996 she has directed "Washington Square" in the
United States, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Albert Finney.
Panorama.am
12/06/2012
Famous Polish director and scriptwriter Agnieszka Holland has been
invited as an honorary guest to participate in the 9th annual Golden
Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. Her latest film, In
Darkness, will be presented within the framework of non-competition
program "Yerevan Premieres." Also, Agnieszka Holland will be honored
with Parajanov Thaler Lifetime Achievement Award, festival's press
service reported.
Agnieszka Holland was born 28 of November 1948 in Warsaw but went
to Czechoslovakia to study film directing at FAMU in Prague. She
began her film career working in Poland with Krzysztof Zanussi
as assistant director, and Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. She wrote
several scripts with Wajda before directing her own films, which
were soon winning awards at festivals - [Cannes (1980), Gdansk,
Berlin (1981), Montreal (1985,1987), Golden Globe Award (1991)] -
and gaining notoriety as part of the Polish New Wave. Holland is best
known in the United States for her Oscar-Nominated "Angry Harvest",
"Europa, Europa", and Warner Bros. fims: "Olivier, Olivier" and the
"The Secret Garden". In 1994 she has directed "Red Wind" in the United
States, a thriller for television produced by Sydney Pollack, which
was aired on Arte in the series Fallen Angels. A year later she made
"Total Eclipse." In 1996 she has directed "Washington Square" in the
United States, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Albert Finney.