“In the Shadow” Foreign Oscar entry to close Czech That Film FestMay 10, 2013 - 15:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The second annual Czech That Film Fest opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 10 at the Billy Wilder Theater in Los Angeles, where director Zdeněk Jirasky will do a Q&A after the screening of Flower Buds, which won four Czech Lion awards from the Czech Academy, the Chicago Film Festival's Silver Hugo and the Flash Forward Award at Pusan in 2012, The Hollywood Reporter said. David Ondricek's In the Shadow, which won nine Lions and the Director to Watch Award at Palm Springs Film Festival and was the Czech Foreign Oscar entry, will close the festival June 3. Czech That is presented by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles and UCLA Film & Television Archive and sponsored by Staropramen. The festival also travels to Salt Lake, Denver, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.. 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 | Government reveals details from Pashinyan’s meeting in border village Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with a group of residents of a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province Narek Manasyan wins European Boxing Championships silver for Armenia Armenia’s Narek Manasyan (92kg) won Armenia’s second silver medal at the European Boxing Championships 2024 on April 28. Blinken urges Azerbaijan to continue negotiations with Armenia Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to continue negotiations with Armenia. Pashinyan, Blinken talk Armenia-U.S. ties over the phone Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 28, Pashinyan’s office reports. |