This year, in the period of 70th Festival de Cannes—May 18-26, for the first time Armenia will be represented in the Film Market in the sector Village International/Pantiero under the number 226 through the pavilion of the Republic of Armenia, where these days “Aurora’s sunrise” of Bars Media, Sergo Ustyan’s “Exchange” and Artur Sukiasyan’s “The Wounded City” are trying their chances to succeed.
Israeli jazz bassist, composer, singer and arranger Avishai Cohen will perform with his Trio (Omri Mor – Piano, Itamar Doari – Percussion) for the first time in Armenia. The concert will be held on May 31 in Aram Khachatryan Concert Hall, Yerevan.
70th jubilee edition of Cannes has been launched at Côte d’Azur gathering world cinematography giants here. The feeling of cinema fete, felt in the air, pleasantly and successfully makes forget after-effects of tiring road, however, this mood has less probability to last long if you are here to work.
“I came into acting career in August of 2009. I was doing a job in Delhi and one of my friends, whose name is Karan Wahi invited me to Mumbai and said to give an audition for the show. I just started to act and the producers of the show confirmed me as an actor.”
“We don’t have difficulty in communication. Firstly, Suren Asatryan regularly visits Turkey for already more than 20 years and is fluent in Turkish, but even if he didn’t know Turkish, we would understand each other, we speak in a language of music. This is a good method for us to communicate. Music is freedom everyone understands,” he said.
World renowned pianist, Honored Artist of Armenia and Russia Maria Ghambaryan will perform on May 17 in St. Petersburg’s state academic capella.
Grammy Award winning musician and activist Serj Tankian and social impact filmmaker Carla Garapedian introduced the organization’s first initiative – a USD 5,000 video challenge from the Oscar-winning director Terry George (Hotel Rwanda and The Promise).
The Wall Street Journal has referred to the film, noting that it’s difficult to make such a film in Hollywood without a funding by a philanthropist when there is no book or TV script.
The Armenian trailer of the Armenian Genocide Hollywood film ‘The Promise’ is available online. The world premier of the movie will be held on April 21.
People’s Artist of Armenia, soprano Hasmik Papian has been awarded the Gold Medal of Armenia’s Culture Ministry for significant contribution in the development of Armenian and global opera art and on the occasion of her 30th anniversary of her career, the Culture Ministry told.
