Ruben Gevorkyan's "Wizard's autumn" among Oscar nomineesSeptember 24, 2009 - 19:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Wizard's autumn" documentary by RA Cinematographers Union Chairman Ruben Gevorkyants, was nominated for Oscar Annual Academy Awards' Best foreign language film.According to Academy regulations, participation applications are to be filed till September 1, 2009. As Modern Culture Department expert at RA Ministry of culture Kristina Gushchyan reported, the application was filed two month ago. "Wizard's autumn" was created in 2008 by scriptwriter Ruben Gevorkyants, directors Ruben Gevorkyants and Vahe Gevorkyants. The film is dedicated to famous Italian scriptwriter, dramatist, poet and sculptor Tonino Guerra. In 2008, "Wizard's autumn" was granted the Grand Prix of "New films of 21st century", as well as Golden Laurel Prize (Khanty-Mansiysk, 2008) and presidential prize. 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 | 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. |