NUMBER OF 2D 'GOLDEN APRICOT' FILM FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS TO DOUBLE
Director of "Golden Apricot" film festival, Harutyun Khachatrian, informed that the festival this year will be held July 12-17. Film workers of 45 countries have so far applied applications.
Grand Prix winner of "Golden Apricot" 2004, Atom Egoyan, will chair the jury which includes Clod Miller, Klaus Eder, Jus Stelling, Simon Field, Peter Wintonick and other renowned culture workers. Krzysztof Zanussi, Abbas Kiarostami and Nikita Mikhalkov are among the honored guests.
"Cinematography as a Way of Dialogue" seminar will be held during the festival days. Besides, the professionals will give lessons and film directors will take part in film discussions.
The founders of the festival are the "Golden Apricot" Film Development Fund, RA Culture and Foreign Ministries, "Hayfilm" cinema studio, Association of Cinema Workers and Cinema Journalists, the Union of Cinematographers and Home-Museum of Sergey Parajanov.
The "Golden Apricot" last year hosted more than 70 foreign film workers and 150 movies from 20 countries were shown.
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- 1827 Departure of the First Armenian Voluntary Brigade from Tbilissi for the front.
- 1851 Greegor Otyan (in Scutaree) founded the "Subscription Company". In his "Arshalooys Araratian" periodical's supplement he encouraged people to establish a boarding school for the free education of the poor.
- 1871 Birth of Nikoghos Adonts (armenologist) in Brnakot, Sisian province. He died in 1943.
- 1978 Death of Armin Wegener (soldier, humanitarian). As a German soldier in the Near East, he surreptitiously photographed scenes of the 1915 Armenian Genocide as it was being implemented by the Turks. He unsuccessfully tried to warn governments of possible future genocides. He was born in 1886.
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