Rai Cinema, Giorgio Armani team for Films of City Frames initiativeMarch 20, 2014 - 15:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Italy’s Rai Cinema and fashion designer Giorgio Armani have teamed up on Films of City Frames, a combined philantropic/promotional initiative that will finance shorts by six selected students or young graduates at international films schools, Variety reported. The selected films schools are NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in New York; USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles; the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome; the National Film and Television School in Londra; the Ecole Superieure de Realisation in Paris; and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Each film school will select a young director who will shoot a short according to the following specifications: the goal is to depict “fragments of life, emotions, gazes and signs captured and filtered” through Giorgio Armani Frames of Life eyeware, as a Rai Cinema statement put it. The first selected young director is Centro Sperimentale graduate Piero Messina, one of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s assistants on “The Great Beauty,” the pic that recently scooped the Oscar for foreign-language film. Rai Cinema, which is the film unit of Italian pubcaster RAI will oversee the production process. Related links: 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 | Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenia, Russia discuss life extension of Metsamor nuclear plant Issues regarding the extension of life of the 2nd power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant were discussed in Yerevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. |