Hong Kong picks “Golden Era” Venice drama as foreign language Oscar entry September 16, 2014 - 12:15 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Ann Hui’s “Golden Era” which was the closing film at this month’s Venice film festival, has been selected to represent Hong Kong in the foreign-language Oscar race, Variety said. The Tang Wei-starring film is a biopic of early 20th century writer Xiao Hong, who died young and uncelebrated, but has since been elevated as one of China’s most important recent authors. The film’s selection was announced by Hong Kong’s Motion Picture Industry Association. It has not yet been released commercially, but will need to complete a wee of commercial release in Hong Kong before the end of the month in order to be eligible for the foreign-language Academy Award category.  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 |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.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. |
