10 live-action shorts advance in Oscars raceNovember 24, 2016 - 13:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, November 23 announced that 10 live-action short films will advance in the voting process for the 89th Academy Awards, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. The list is cut from 137 productions that had originally qualified in the category. The films are: Bon Voyage, Marc Wilkins, director, and Joël Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduction) Ennemis Intérieurs, Sélim Azzazi, director (Qualia Films) Graffiti, Lluis Quilez, director (Participant Media, Euphoria Productions and Ainur Films) La Femme et le TGV, Timo von Gunten, director (arbel gmbh) Nocturne in Black, Jimmy Keyrouz, director (Columbia University) The Rifle, the Jackal, the Wolf and the Boy, Oualid Mouaness, director (Tricycle Logic) Silent Nights, Aske Bang, director, and Kim Magnusson, producer (M & M Productions) Sing (Mindenki), Kristof Deák, director (Meteor Filmstudio) Timecode, Juanjo Giménez, director (Nadir Films) The Way of Tea (Les Frémissements du Thé), Marc Fouchard, director, and Matthieu Devillers, producer (Existenz, BlackBox and P904) 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 | Turkey extends military presence in Azerbaijan The Turkish parliament has adopted a bill submitted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to extend the mandate of Turkish troops. Russia to begin assessing migrant workers' speaking skills Rosobrnadzor is planning to change the Russian language exam for migrant workers and include an assessment of speaking skills Armenian, Saudi Foreign Minister meet in Riyadh The two commended the positive dynamics of the development of political dialogue between Armenia and Saudi Arabia Pashinyan: Azerbaijan’s proximity shouldn’t worry border residents At the same time, he said that he “does not guarantee [the security of villagers] one hundred percent”. |