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Victor Elice again to chair the jury in Golden Apricot International
Film Festival
http://www.yerkirmedia.am/?act=news&lan=en&id=7863
19:51 . 15/06
The 9th Golden Apricot International Film Festival will start on July
8 in Yerevan. More than 1,100 applications were received from 70
countries this year. Spanish well-known film director Victor Erice
will be chair the jury.
The 4 traditional competitions will be retained: they are feature,
documentary, `Armenian Panorama' and `Stone'. On the occasion of
declaring Armenia a capital of book a new project titled `Book and
Film' was introduced, which will include movies based on Armenian and
world classic works.
Once again the forum Directors Without Borders will be organized. It
is planned to organize a course called Cinema Journalists Without
Borders. The organizers of the festival again face difficulties
because of the lack of cinema houses and halls like in the previous
years.
`We are limited in terms of premises, the halls are few, we are even
trying not to increase the number of the films. If it increases
independent of us, we appear in a difficult situation. It is also
natural, no spectator can watch 150 films in 7 days. Therefore, we are
trying to organize everything so that anyone can find something
corresponding to his/her taste and preferences,' the Festival Program
Director Mikayel Stamboltsyan said.
Film Festival
http://www.yerkirmedia.am/?act=news&lan=en&id=7863
19:51 . 15/06
The 9th Golden Apricot International Film Festival will start on July
8 in Yerevan. More than 1,100 applications were received from 70
countries this year. Spanish well-known film director Victor Erice
will be chair the jury.
The 4 traditional competitions will be retained: they are feature,
documentary, `Armenian Panorama' and `Stone'. On the occasion of
declaring Armenia a capital of book a new project titled `Book and
Film' was introduced, which will include movies based on Armenian and
world classic works.
Once again the forum Directors Without Borders will be organized. It
is planned to organize a course called Cinema Journalists Without
Borders. The organizers of the festival again face difficulties
because of the lack of cinema houses and halls like in the previous
years.
`We are limited in terms of premises, the halls are few, we are even
trying not to increase the number of the films. If it increases
independent of us, we appear in a difficult situation. It is also
natural, no spectator can watch 150 films in 7 days. Therefore, we are
trying to organize everything so that anyone can find something
corresponding to his/her taste and preferences,' the Festival Program
Director Mikayel Stamboltsyan said.