Books & Arts

Serbian renowned film producer Emir Kusturica has taken part in the “Golden Orange” film festival in Antalya, Turkey. However, because of the criticism addressed to him by Turkish politicians and artists he had to leave from Turkey. He said the campaign against him was barbarism. “I am not a member of any political party. I …

A renowned Serbian film producer Emir Kusturica was invited to Turkey to be a member of jury at the “Golden Orange” film festival in Antalya. While being in Turkey he faced such a big resistance that he had to leave from that country by making harsh statements. When the people learned that Kusturica would be …

The film development foundation named after the renown Russian actor Rolan Bikov organizes festivals for children in Yerevan and Moscow every year. This is the sixth time that the festival is organized in Yerevan, which will take place on October 12-16. It has become a tradition to move the festival to the regions of Armenia …

Hayfilm film studio after Hamo Beknazaryan was privatized in 2005. The state decided not to keep the film production studio and sold it to the SC MEDIA CITY holding, which belongs to the family of the Gafeschyans. The company undertook a number of responsibilities before buying the film studio. These responsibilities include construction of the …

In 2005 the Hay Film Studio with its 34-hectare territory, premises and buildings was sold to CS Media belonging to the Gafesjyan family at 770.000 USD and with obligations of investing over 70 million USD. That investment should have included restoration, technical armament and digitization of the Armenian films. The company announced that it claimed …

The RA Ministry of Culture in the person of its minister Hasmik Poghosyan and the movie committee formed by her allotted 19 million AMD for shooting a film, which doesn’t have a scenario or a plot. And I mean this in the literal meaning of the word. The conditional name of the film is “Walnut …

The issues of the Armenian movie production, as a rule, start at the projecting phase. And it is almost impossible to understand with vigilant consciousness why certain movies receive the sponsorship by the state. It is accepted that during the selection of projects they take into account several factors, the most tangible of which is …

On July 15 Canadian Armenian Atom Egoyan, the president of the Golden Apricot film festival, had a meeting with students in the national gallery. This person has his solid place in the world “cult” film production, and his meeting with students in Armenia looked more like a lecture. By the way, he did not get …

I was waiting for the godfather of the film production of Iceland Frederic Fredrickson in the hotel lobby. His contribution is very big, even though the show of one of his first short-length movies was failed and the film producer had to leave from Reykjavik. The reason why this movie was failed was the fact …

On June 17 Serzh Tankian will have a concert in the Krakus City Hall of Moscow. Before his concert he gave an interview to the Russian edition of the Rolling Stone journal. – Whose image did inspire you to grow a beard? – Both Lenin and Tolstoy. Great people; I have always wanted to be …