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PARAJANOV INCLUDED IN LONGLIST FOR 2014 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR
YEREVAN, October 8. / ARKA /. A biopic on Soviet-era director Sergei
Parajanov was included in the long list for the Academy Award in the
foreign language film category.
Paradjanov, directed by first-time feature directors Olena Fetisova
(Ukraine) and Serge Avedikian (France), who also stars as the renowned
director, was made as a co-production between Ukraine, Georgia and
Armenia - the three countries in which Parajanov worked - and France.
Parajanov, an ethnic Armenian born and raised in Georgia, came
to prominence with his 1965 historic drama Tini zabutykh predkiv
(Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors), which collected the Critics
Grand Prize and the Special Jury Award at the Mar del Plata Film
Festival and was released in more than a dozen countries.
However, despite the international success, Parajanov was soon banned
from filmmaking by Soviet ideologues and later thrown into prison on
what were widely believed to be fabricated charges.
After being released, he made three more features, The Legend of the
Suram Fortress and Ashug-Kerib and died in 1990.
The Academy's longlist for the 2014 Foreign Language Film Oscar
includes 76 films. The number, up from 71 films last year, sets
a new record for the category and includes frontrunners such
as Asghar Farhadi's The Past from Iran, Thomas Vinterberg's The
Hunt from Denmark, and Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmaster from Hong
Kong. Russia's Fyodor Bondarchuk-helmed World War II action-drama
Stalingrad also made it to the longlist. .-0- - See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/society/parajanov_included_in_longlist_for_2014_foreign_la nguage_film_oscar_/#sthash.sxraWLLa.dpuf
YEREVAN, October 8. / ARKA /. A biopic on Soviet-era director Sergei
Parajanov was included in the long list for the Academy Award in the
foreign language film category.
Paradjanov, directed by first-time feature directors Olena Fetisova
(Ukraine) and Serge Avedikian (France), who also stars as the renowned
director, was made as a co-production between Ukraine, Georgia and
Armenia - the three countries in which Parajanov worked - and France.
Parajanov, an ethnic Armenian born and raised in Georgia, came
to prominence with his 1965 historic drama Tini zabutykh predkiv
(Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors), which collected the Critics
Grand Prize and the Special Jury Award at the Mar del Plata Film
Festival and was released in more than a dozen countries.
However, despite the international success, Parajanov was soon banned
from filmmaking by Soviet ideologues and later thrown into prison on
what were widely believed to be fabricated charges.
After being released, he made three more features, The Legend of the
Suram Fortress and Ashug-Kerib and died in 1990.
The Academy's longlist for the 2014 Foreign Language Film Oscar
includes 76 films. The number, up from 71 films last year, sets
a new record for the category and includes frontrunners such
as Asghar Farhadi's The Past from Iran, Thomas Vinterberg's The
Hunt from Denmark, and Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmaster from Hong
Kong. Russia's Fyodor Bondarchuk-helmed World War II action-drama
Stalingrad also made it to the longlist. .-0- - See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/society/parajanov_included_in_longlist_for_2014_foreign_la nguage_film_oscar_/#sthash.sxraWLLa.dpuf