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  • Documentary

    There are a lot of good documentaries out there and this thread can be used to discuss them. I was wondering if anyone knows about this one?

    HARUTYUN KHACHATRYAN'S MOVIE WINS AT TURIN FILM FESTIVAL

    December 3, 2014

    ARMENPRESS - "Endless Escape, Eternal Return" by Armenian filmmaker
    Harutyun Khachatryan won Best International Documentary at 33nd Turin
    Film Festival. The movie was also awarded 5000 Euros. 10 other movies
    had been introduced in the same nomination from the United States,
    France, Germany, UK, Brazil, Belgium, Syria and others. Harutyun
    Khachatryan stated this at the course of the press conference held
    on December 3. Among other things, the filmmaker noted that issues
    of great concern for the Armenian people have been introduced in
    the movie.

    Between the late 1980s and early 1990s, three history-making events
    shook Armenia: independence from the Soviet Union, which redrew the
    geography of an entire portion of the world; the war with Azerbaijan
    for control of Nagorno-Karabakh; and a devastating

    earthquake. These episodes forced many Armenians to leave their
    homeland. Including a man who today lives in Moscow and retraces for
    us his journey as an exile, which has lasted over twenty years.

    Harutyun Khachatryan was born in Akhalkalak, Georgia. He graduated
    in 1981 from the Film Division of the Department of Culture of the
    Armenian State Pedagogical University. Between 1981-1986, he worked as
    an assistant to director and film director at the Armenian Documentary
    Studio and between 1987-2005 he worked in Hayfilm aka Armenfilm Studio
    as director and producer. He directed films that were awarded prizes
    at various international film festivals. In 2003, he received Armenian
    Government Award and obtained recognition as Honored Artist of the
    Republic of Armenia. Director of Golden Apricot Fcd, is also co-founder
    and General Director of Yerevan International Film Festival since 2004.



    YEREVAN, DECEMBER 3, ARMENPRESS. “Endless Escape, Eternal Return” by Armenian filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan won Best International Documentary at 33nd Turin Film Festival. The movie was also awarded 5000 Euros. 10 other movies had been introduced in the same nomination from the United States, France, Germany, UK, Brazil, Belgium, Syria and others. Harutyun Khachatryan stated this at the course of the press conference held on December 3. Among other things, the filmmaker noted that issues of great concern for the Armenian people have been introduced in the movie.
    Hayastan or Bust.

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    Re: Documentary

    Ruzanna Gishian
    21.08.2015

    The Armenian government plans to renationalize the country's largest
    and oldest film studio due to the failure of its Armenian-American
    owners to revive film production there with large-scale investments
    promised by them.

    The government moved to regain control over the moribund Armenfilm
    studio earlier this month, exactly ten years after it was sold to CS
    Media, a company co-owned at the time by U.S.-Armenian philanthropist
    Gerard Cafesjian and his business partner in Armenia, Bagrat
    Sargsian. CS Media paid about $800,000 for the Soviet-era studio and
    pledged to invest roughly $70 million in it over the next decade.

    The money was supposed to be mainly spent on refurbishing Armenfilm's
    rundown facilities and providing it with state-of-the-art filmmaking
    equipment.

    However, the new owners have since done little apart from renaming
    Armenfilm CS Film Studios and digitizing hundreds of its old
    films. The studio has not produced any new movies since its
    privatization.

    Cafesjian sold most of his business assets in Armenia years after
    Armenfilm's acquisition. He died in 2013 at the age of 88. Sargsian,
    for his part, relocated to the United States shortly before
    Cafesjian's death.

    The studio's executive director, Khachatur Sokolokian, refused on
    Friday to discuss its current state and future. "I can't comment at
    this point," he told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am).

    Ruben Gevorgiants, an Armenian filmmaker who used to head the studio's
    governing board, said the new owners seemed serious about breathing a
    new life into Armenfilm when they acquired it. "I thought they are
    going to produce films there," he said. "But they then realized that
    there is no market for those films."

    Gevorgiants said the Armenian government officials have discussed the
    issue with Cafesjian's daughter and main heir, Kathleen Cafesjian
    Baradaran. In his words, she does not object to the studio's
    renationalization.

    Baradaran took over as head of the Cafesjian Family Foundation, a
    Minnesota-based charity founded by her father, after his death. She
    visited Yerevan and met with President Serzh Sarkisian in October last
    year. A statement on the meeting released by Sarkisian's office made
    no mention of Armenfilm.

    Baradaran was reported to tell Sarkisian that the Cafesjian Foundation
    will carry on with its cultural projects in Armenia. The charity runs
    a museum of contemporary art in Yerevan. Most of its artifacts were
    donated by Gerard Cafesjian.
    Hayastan or Bust.

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