Content takes int’l sales on “Cries From Syria” ahead of Sundance debutJanuary 21, 2017 - 13:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Content Media Corp. has taken international sales rights to Evgeny Afineevsky’s “Cries From Syria” ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, January 22, according to Variety. The Syrian civil war documentary has already been nabbed by HBO for U.S. TV rights. Content will introduce the film to international buyers at next month’s EFM in Berlin. “Cries From Syria” uses footage from Syrian activists and citizen journalists to chronicle the violence engulfing their country following protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian regime. In the ongoing civil war, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have died, and millions more have fled the country for other parts of the Middle East and for Europe. “It’s understandable why many people struggle to process the tsunami of devastating news coming out of Syria, but Evgeny Afineevsky’s extraordinary film vigorously cuts through the noise, and dramatically shows us the human cost of the war through the eyes of children and the innocent,” said Jamie Carmichael, President of Film at Content. “Cries From Syria” is produced by Afineevsky with Den Tolmor and Aaron I. Butler. The deal comes on the heels of Content’s acquisition Thursday of international rights for another documentary making its premiere in Park City, Greg Barker’s “Legion of Brothers,” which premieres Saturday. 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. |