Oscar-winning “Citizenfour” helmer joins Berlinale documentary juryJanuary 26, 2017 - 16:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Berlin Film Festival has named Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras to the documentary film jury for this year's event, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. Poitras produced her Academy Award-winning Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour in Berlin to avoid interference by the U.S. government. In addition to the Oscar, Citizenfour won best documentary at the German Film Awards in 2015. Her recent documentary Risk was a look at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Poitras will be joined by Iraqi director Samir, whose film Iraqi Odyssey screened in Berlin's Panorama sidebar in 2015, and Mexican film critic and festival programmer Daniela Michel. The trio will judge the 16 non-fiction films screening in all sections of the Berlin festival, and will pick the winner of the Glashutte Original Documentary Award. The prize, which comes with a $54,000 (€50,000) cash bursary, will be announced at the official Berlin festival awards ceremony on Feb. 18. The 2017 Berlin Film Festival runs Feb.8-19. Photo: AFP/ Getty Images 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 | 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. |