Jury of 6th international film festival Golden Apricot announcedJune 19, 2009 - 20:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Jury of the 6th international film festival Golden Apricot has been announced. Three main competition programs are submitted to the festival held between July 12 and 19: international live-action movie, documentary and Armenian panorama. Films will be evaluated by five categories of jury. As Mikael Stamboltsyan, one of Golden Apricot founders told journalists today, jury for "International live-action movie" is headed by Japan producer Kohey Oguri. Among Jury members are Arsine Khanjian, Pedro Almodovar's first producer Paco Poch, Eric Boghosian. Aleksander Rodnyansky will head documentary film jury. Armenian panorama jury will be chaired by the producer from the Netherlands Hayk Balian. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. 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”. Partner news | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. |