  The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia awarded The Best Documentary at Dance on Camera Film Festival  February 7, 2011 - 18:14 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia was awarded The Best Documentary at 39th Dance on Camera Film Festival in New York, U.S. In the past, the film produced by Bars Media received The Grand Prix at the 19th International Festival of Ethnological Films (Belgrade, Serbia, 2010), The Grand Prix at International Women's Film Festival "KIN" 7-th edition(Yerevan, Armenia, 2010), The Best Documentary at Listopad International Film Festival (Minsk, Belarus, 2010), The Best Documentary at 5th Pomegranate Film Festival (Toronto, Canada, 2010), The Best Feature Length Documentary and special award for Search of Original Scenario of Nonfiction Film at the “Russia” Documentary Film Festival (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2010), The Best Armenian Film at 7th Golden Apricot International Film Festival (Yerevan, Armenia, 2010), Special Jury Award at Gdansk International Doc Film Festival (Gdansk, Poland, 2010). The film was also included in official screening list of such European festivals as IDFA (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009), Goteborg International Film Festival (Goteborg, Sweden, 2010), DOK Leipzig 53rd International Film Festival (Leipzig, Germany, 2010), FilmFest Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany, 2010), Euganea Film Festival (Padua, Italy 2010) and others. In October, 2010 the documentary had its American TV premiere by PBS, which continues showing it during the weeks. The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia seeks to understand why the tightrope has been abandoned by Armenia's society through the story of an orphan boy, who is the last student of tightrope dancing, and his old and marginalized instructors, who are trying to save their beloved art. The story of the last tightrope dancer is a local story, unfolding in a small country. The theme, however, can be found throughout every society in the world: the loss of tradition, and the shift of social values in the face of globalization. The film has been shown on NHK (Japan), SVT (Sweden), TVP (Poland) and YLE (Finland), Bars Media Documentary Film Studio said in a press release.   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. |
