“The Bad Intentions” named Peru’s candidate for Oscar raceSeptember 28, 2012 - 15:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Peruvian Minister of Culture announced that Rosario Garcia Montero’s dark coming-of-age story The Bad Intentions will be the country’s candidate for the Foreign Oscar race, The Hollywood Reporter said. Starring Fatima Buntinx and Katerina D’Onofrio, The Bad Intentions is set in 1980s Peru, and tells the story of 8-year-old Cayetana, a well-off girl who learns her mother is pregnant and believes the coming of a new sibling to the family will result in her imminent death. The obscure story is set against a time of political turmoil in Peru, when terrorism began to affect everyday life in Lima. Garcia Montero’s first film won best Peruvian film at the Lima International Film Festival, and best Latin American film in Mar del Plata fest last year. Peru previously made it to the Foreign Oscar nominations in 2009, with Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow. 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. |