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GOLDEN APRICOT 9TH YEREVAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PROMISES RICH, INTERESTING PROGRAM
tert.am
11.05.12
On May 11 a joint press conference was held at the Ministry of Culture
of RA which announced this year's Golden Apricot Yerevan International
Film Festival, http://www.gaiff.am website reports.
The speakers of the press conference were the Minister of Culture of
RA -Hasmik Poghosyan,VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian,
the Director of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film
Festival Harutyun Khachatryan, the Festival Program Director Mikayel
Stamboltsyan, and the Festival Artistic Director Susanna Harutyunyan.
Golden Apricot 9th Yerevan International Film Festival will be
held from July 8th till 15th, 2012. This year again the festival is
supported by the general sponsor and devoted partner VivaCell-MTS
and the Ministry of Culture of Armenia.
Overall, 1,020 applications (last year- around 700 submissions) from
around 70 countries were submitted for participation in the festival
this year, which is the evidence of the festival's yearly growing
popularity. Another proof of this is the participation of renowned
cinematographers, which has grown into just another tradition at
the festival. This year the jury of the festival will be presided by
Spanish director Victor Erice, jury member of the Cannes Film Festival
in 2010. With Yerevan announced the World Book Capital in 2012,
the Golden Apricot will present a new program Book and Cinema. The
program will reflect on the screen versions of the Armenian and world
classic literature.
The competitions in 2012 again will include International Feature,
International Documentary, Armenian Panorama, and Apricot Stone
programs. The latter was launched in 2011 and is particularly
aimed for short films by young cinematographers. The screenings are
promising in Yerevan Perspectives, Retrospect Screenings and Tribute
programs, which promise a number of surprises by the world masters
of cinematography. In particular, film screenings dedicated to the
90th anniversary of Yuri Yerznkyan (Yuri Yerznkyan and his students)
and the 85th anniversary of Frunze Dovlatyan will be organized within
the Tribute program. The 80th anniversary of Andrey Tarkovski will
be celebrated with special remark.
In the frames of the festival Directors Across Borders co-production
forum will be implemented with the EU support. This year the 6th
edition of the forum will be held already in the frames of the European
Union Eastern Partnership. More information on the program are to be
presented at a press conference to come.
"Cinema Journalism Across Borders" training is planned to be held
before the start of the festival and is to be attended by highly
qualified international experts and cinema researchers and critics
arriving from the Eastern Partnership countries. The guests will
participate in the publication of the Golden Apricot Daily throughout
the festival days.
From: A. Papazian
tert.am
11.05.12
On May 11 a joint press conference was held at the Ministry of Culture
of RA which announced this year's Golden Apricot Yerevan International
Film Festival, http://www.gaiff.am website reports.
The speakers of the press conference were the Minister of Culture of
RA -Hasmik Poghosyan,VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian,
the Director of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film
Festival Harutyun Khachatryan, the Festival Program Director Mikayel
Stamboltsyan, and the Festival Artistic Director Susanna Harutyunyan.
Golden Apricot 9th Yerevan International Film Festival will be
held from July 8th till 15th, 2012. This year again the festival is
supported by the general sponsor and devoted partner VivaCell-MTS
and the Ministry of Culture of Armenia.
Overall, 1,020 applications (last year- around 700 submissions) from
around 70 countries were submitted for participation in the festival
this year, which is the evidence of the festival's yearly growing
popularity. Another proof of this is the participation of renowned
cinematographers, which has grown into just another tradition at
the festival. This year the jury of the festival will be presided by
Spanish director Victor Erice, jury member of the Cannes Film Festival
in 2010. With Yerevan announced the World Book Capital in 2012,
the Golden Apricot will present a new program Book and Cinema. The
program will reflect on the screen versions of the Armenian and world
classic literature.
The competitions in 2012 again will include International Feature,
International Documentary, Armenian Panorama, and Apricot Stone
programs. The latter was launched in 2011 and is particularly
aimed for short films by young cinematographers. The screenings are
promising in Yerevan Perspectives, Retrospect Screenings and Tribute
programs, which promise a number of surprises by the world masters
of cinematography. In particular, film screenings dedicated to the
90th anniversary of Yuri Yerznkyan (Yuri Yerznkyan and his students)
and the 85th anniversary of Frunze Dovlatyan will be organized within
the Tribute program. The 80th anniversary of Andrey Tarkovski will
be celebrated with special remark.
In the frames of the festival Directors Across Borders co-production
forum will be implemented with the EU support. This year the 6th
edition of the forum will be held already in the frames of the European
Union Eastern Partnership. More information on the program are to be
presented at a press conference to come.
"Cinema Journalism Across Borders" training is planned to be held
before the start of the festival and is to be attended by highly
qualified international experts and cinema researchers and critics
arriving from the Eastern Partnership countries. The guests will
participate in the publication of the Golden Apricot Daily throughout
the festival days.
From: A. Papazian