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REANIMANIA: 6TH EDITION OF INT'L ANIMATION FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN
Arts and Culture | 23.10.14 | 16:13
Alina Nikoghosyan
ArmeniaNow intern
On Saturday the sixth edition of an international animated film
festival will open in Yerevan, Armenia. This year the annual ReAnimania
festival has received a record number of applications.
The opening ceremony will take place at Moscow Cinema to be followed
by the Yerevan premiere of Stephane Berla's Jack & the Cuckoo-Clock
Heart (France).
This year ReAnimania has received 900 applications from about 90
countries, of which 400 full-length, short-length animated films and
videos will be demonstrated.
At a press conference on Thursday the founding director of ReAnimania,
Vrej Kassouny, said that one of the most important programs of
the festival is preparation and display of animated films about
the Genocide.
In conjunction with the French Embassy in Yerevan, one of the best
animation studios in France, Folimage, will be presented within the
framework of the festival.
"This year we have six premieres, which are the best animated
films produced during this year. Since the day of the festival's
establishment its most important goal has been to find partners
abroad, because this is the only such festival in the region," said
Artistic Director of the festival Raffi Movsisyan, who added that
in the competition program there is only Armenian animated film -
"The Blind". According to Movsisyan, there will be separate sections
dedicated to Armenian animation. Animated films made in 2009-2013
and the best films made during the 76-year-old history of Armenian
animation will be presented.
Director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the festival, Little
Theatre Artistic Director Vahan Badalyan, for his part, said that he
has tried to give a new coloring to the opening and closing ceremonies.
"I've tried to think of something that will provide a little
interesting artistic nuance to the opening and closing ceremonies
and the ideal of "Life is a Picture, Animate It" will be visible on
stage," he added.
The 6th International Animated Film Festival will conclude on October
30, with the premiere show of Israeli director Ari Folman's The
Congress film (French-Israeli production) at Moscow Cinema.
After shows in capital Yerevan the festival will have a continuation
in Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri.
http://armenianow.com/arts_and_culture/57881/armenia_reanimania_festival
From: A. Papazian
Arts and Culture | 23.10.14 | 16:13
Alina Nikoghosyan
ArmeniaNow intern
On Saturday the sixth edition of an international animated film
festival will open in Yerevan, Armenia. This year the annual ReAnimania
festival has received a record number of applications.
The opening ceremony will take place at Moscow Cinema to be followed
by the Yerevan premiere of Stephane Berla's Jack & the Cuckoo-Clock
Heart (France).
This year ReAnimania has received 900 applications from about 90
countries, of which 400 full-length, short-length animated films and
videos will be demonstrated.
At a press conference on Thursday the founding director of ReAnimania,
Vrej Kassouny, said that one of the most important programs of
the festival is preparation and display of animated films about
the Genocide.
In conjunction with the French Embassy in Yerevan, one of the best
animation studios in France, Folimage, will be presented within the
framework of the festival.
"This year we have six premieres, which are the best animated
films produced during this year. Since the day of the festival's
establishment its most important goal has been to find partners
abroad, because this is the only such festival in the region," said
Artistic Director of the festival Raffi Movsisyan, who added that
in the competition program there is only Armenian animated film -
"The Blind". According to Movsisyan, there will be separate sections
dedicated to Armenian animation. Animated films made in 2009-2013
and the best films made during the 76-year-old history of Armenian
animation will be presented.
Director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the festival, Little
Theatre Artistic Director Vahan Badalyan, for his part, said that he
has tried to give a new coloring to the opening and closing ceremonies.
"I've tried to think of something that will provide a little
interesting artistic nuance to the opening and closing ceremonies
and the ideal of "Life is a Picture, Animate It" will be visible on
stage," he added.
The 6th International Animated Film Festival will conclude on October
30, with the premiere show of Israeli director Ari Folman's The
Congress film (French-Israeli production) at Moscow Cinema.
After shows in capital Yerevan the festival will have a continuation
in Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri.
http://armenianow.com/arts_and_culture/57881/armenia_reanimania_festival
From: A. Papazian