Golden Apricot: First night of Braden King’ Here takes place in Yerevan

 July 13, 2011 - 12:31 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Braden King’ Here is included in the list of Yerevan premiers of the Golden Apricot 8th international cinema festival.

“First night of Braden King’ Here took place in different cities but Yerevan premier is the most important because the film is back to home,” King told a press conference.

“Casual people were also filmed. This is not just a Hollywood movie but a trip,” said King.

Will is a satellite-mapping engineer conducting a survey of Armenia. One morning, at a rural hotel, he meets Gadarine, an Armenian expatriate and photographer, who has just returned home for the first time in years. There is an almost instant, unconscious bond between these two lone travelers; they impulsively decide to continue together…Will ultimately comes to view the land as a source of faulty data, while Gadarine sees it as a way to redefine her relationship with home. As the film Here suggests, "truth is conjecture".

Braden King was born in 1971, in Cherry Point, North Carolina, the USA.

He graduated from the USC School of Cinema-Television in Los Angeles in 1993. His Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back was screened in over 20 major international film festivals and toured internationally with live, improvised soundtrack accompaniment by the acclaimed Boxhead Ensemble. King makes films that attempt to blur classification; combine traditional methods with experimental approaches. King’s work has been exhibited at leading international film festivals and institutions, including Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin, London, Melbourne, Singapore; The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.. He has lectured at Yale University, The University of Southern California, Bard College, Wheaton College, etc. Honors include the CICAE Prize at the 2011 Berlin IFF, 2008 Cannes IFF Atelier, 2008 Sundance/ NHK International Filmmakers Award, etc.. King’s current feature film, Here premiered at the 2011 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals.