Armenian actor awarded Grand Prix in "Atspindys" International FestivalOctober 12, 2009 - 22:22 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Atspindys" third International Film festival was recently held in Visaginas, Lithuania. Festival program included 8 spectacles belonging to different genres (drama, comedy, tragicomedy, pantomime and romance). Event brought together actors from England, Belarus, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, France and Armenia.Armenian actor Aram Hovhannisyan was awarded Grand Prix in Best Male Role nomination. Elena Dudich from Mogilevsk Dramatic Theatre was recognized as the best female actress for her role in "Growling Sparrow". Among actors invited to participate in "Atspindys" there were laureates of international contests and festivals. "We are happy to see more and more actors from different countries becoming interested in festival," "Atspindys" director Maria Tanana says. Actors were evaluated by an international professional jury presided over by playwright, member of International Association of Theatre Critics Nina Mazur and an independent jury presided over by Asta Selunene, Head of local-self government body's Department for Education and Culture. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. 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”. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |