 Leon Cakoff: I am delighted with organization level of Golden Apricot festival July 17, 2010 - 18:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Brazilian-Armenian filmmaker, President of an international film festival in San-Paolo Leon Cakoff (Leon Shatarevian) said that he is delighted with the organization level of Golden Apricot festival. “Despite its small scale, it brought together such filmmakers as Theodoros Angelopoulos, Atom Egoyan, etc,” Cakoff told a press conference on the sidelines of Golden Apricot festival in Yerevan on July 17. The filmmaker promised to arrive in Armenia every year to be beneficial to the festival. “I will be recommending Brazilian films to the festival organizers. And, possibly, I will select Armenian films for my festival,” noted Leon Cakoff. He added that he is eager to include Armenian films (starting from silent ones) in the program of San-Paolo festival. He even made an attempt of retrospective screening of Armenian films in 1988, but failed in doing so, as “the Soviet Union was not interested in promotion of national films of any republic.” Commenting on San-Paolo festival, Kakov said that he applied to San-Paolo Gallery with an offer to organize films screening in 1974. “In five years, I suggested its management to organize a festival and they agreed gladly,” said Leon Cakoff.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Topic Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
