Author Rachel Kushner named Guest Director at Telluride Film FestApril 3, 2015 - 11:21 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Telluride Film Festival has named decorated author Rachel Kushner as its 2015 Creative Director, TheWrap reports. Kushner, most recently a National Book Award finalist for her novel “The Flamethrowers,” joins previous directors like Alexander Payne, Salman Rushdie, Peter Bogdanovich, Laurie Anderson and Stephen Sondheim. “Rachel was a natural choice as the 42nd TFF Guest Director,” festival executive director Julie Huntsinger said in a statement. “Our audience will be as grateful as Tom and I have been to listen to her thoughts and insight and see the outstanding film choices she has made. We actually owe a huge debt of thanks to our past Guest Director Michael Ondaatje for urging us to work with her.” Kushner is the author of “The Flamethrowers,” which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and on almost every Best Book list, including the New York Times Top Five Novels of 2013. “Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I’ve long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers — one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado ‘Alps,’” Kushner said. “It still feels a bit dreamlike to me that I have been given this privilege to be a guest director — to indulge my love of cinema, to share with the world films I’ve long loved.” The 42nd Telluride Film Festival runs over Labor Day weekend, September 4-7, 2015. 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. |