05 05 2007- Armenian Documentary Wins Tribeca Film Festival Prize

Armenian Documentary Wins Tribeca Film Festival Prize
New York, May 4, Armenpress: A Story of People in War & Peace, directed by Armenian film director Vartan Hovhanesian, was recognized the winner of the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York in the category of Best New Documentary Filmmaker. The film is about the horrors of war and its effects that uses footage from the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh.The Winner received $25,000 cash and the art award "Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg, South Africa," created by Bruce Weber. This year's Festival included 157 features and 88 short films from 47 countries. The world competition winners were chosen from 18 narrative and 16 documentary features from 25 countries. Two awards were also given to honor New York films, which were chosen from 14 narrative and eight documentary features. Of the 62 short films in competition, awards were given for best narrative, best documentary and student visionary film. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff after the attacks on the World Trade Center to help economically and culturally revitalize Lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music, and culture. The Festival's mission is to assist filmmakers to reach the broadest possible audience, enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film, and to promote New York City as a major filmmaking center.
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Vartan Hovhannesian ha vinto a New York il premio del miglior documentarista "Best New Documentary Filmmaker".Il film ispirato alla guerra del Nagorno Karabagh tra l'Armenia e l'Azerbaijan, racconta gli orrori della guerra e le sue conseguenze.Erano 88 i film presentati e 47 i paesi partecipanti..........Oltre i $25 000 contanti Hovhannesian riceve anche il premio "Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg,South Africa"................
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Sergey Parajanov's Film At The Korean International Festival
A special program - "Divergency and Resistance: Films Prohibited in the USSR" - was held at the International Film Festival in Jeonju, South Korea from April 27 to May 5. Sergey Parajanov's "The Ukrainian Rhapsody" (1961) was shown among other films. A leaflet especially published for this program included article "Maestro Sargis" of film critic Artsvi Bakhchinian.British-Armenian filmmaker Von (Vahan) Pilikian's "Hummer and Flame" documentary, award-winner of Golden Apricot film festival 2005, was also shown in Jeonju. Von Pelikian was in Armenia in May and showed his feature and animated films as well as documentaries at the Narekatsi Center.

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