[Bilimsel Haber] EVENT- Armenian Films, Silver Lake Film Festival, March 24-29, Los Angeles, CA

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

EVENT- Armenian Films, Silver Lake Film Festival, March 24-29, Los
Angeles, CA

Beyond the Diaspora: Armenian Film Makers from Around the World at the
Sixth Silver Lake Film Festival 2006

Opening Night:

Date - Friday, March 24, 2006
Time - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Location:

ArcLight Cinema Lounge
6360, West Sunset Blvd. [One block West of Vine]
Hollywood, California
USA

Screenings are from March 24th to March 29th, 2006, at the same location
as identified above.

Tickets:

US$11.Advance tickets to screenings can be purchased by calling:
323-464-4226 OR at: <http://www.silverlakefilmfestival.org/tickets.html>.

Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, is the leading
independent film and video festival. This Year, the Festival features
more than 200 films - including 85 Premiers.

Eastside Los Angeles' large Armenian ethnic population inspired this
original program of 'diaspora films' by filmmakers of Armenian descent
who are born and work and live outside their homeland, Armenia.
Filmmakers in the series hail from France, Ukraine, Canada, and U.S.

Armenian Cinema, much like Armenian culture, is produced both in the
homeland and in the diaspora. The Armenian cinematic tradition stretches
back over 90 years to 1911, when the burial of the prelate Catholicos
Matheus II was captured on celluloid.

The Armenian film studio Haikino began operations in Yerevan in March!
1924. Since then, there have been fruitful periods and relatively
difficult times in film production in the homeland, reflecting the
political stability or turmoil of Armenia, the Caucasus or the broader
region. In parallel, and mostly as a result of mass migration due to the
Genocide of 1915, Armenians were dispersed to different parts of the
world creating an extensive diaspora, of which the United States has the
highest concentration in numbers.

Subsequent generations produced filmmakers scattered throughout the
globe with an eclectic harvest of films. This program is a small
sampling of diaspora Armenian filmmakers.  Some of them treat Armenian
issues, while others handle general human interest stories.

Schedule & Descriptive Information at:
www.silverlakerfilmfestival.org

5:45 PM on Friday, March 24, 2006:

Three Documentaries:
  - 'Right to Exit' - USA, 2003, 53 mins.; U.S. Premiere.
Director/ Producer: Anna Terean
Screenwriter/Producer: Artur Armin
  - 'Karaoke Dreams' - USA, 2006, 44 mins.; U.S. Premiere.
Director/editor/camera/co-producer: Rob Davidian
  - 'Hammer and Flame' - UK, 2004, 10 mins.; U.S. Premiere.
Director: Vaughan Pilikian
Producer: Justin Meiland
Winner of the Golden Apricot, Best Documentary, Yerevan 2005; and Best
Foreign Short, Malescorto, 2005.

7:15 PM on Saturday, March 25, 2006:

  - 'Garine Torossian Retrospective' - Los Angeles Premiere.
Garine Torossian was born in Beirut, Lebanon, of Armenian origin and
moved to Canada in 1979.  Retrospectives of her work have taken place at
New York's Museum of Modern Art, Armenia's Cinematheque, Berlin Arsenal
and Telluride Film Festival.
  - 'Sparklehorse' - 16 mm, 1999, 9 mins.
Honorable Mention Berlin International Film Festival 2000.
  - 'Dust' - 16 mm, 2000, 6 mins.
  - 'Babies On The Sun' - 16 mm, 2001, 5 mins.
  - 'Nostalgic' - Winner of Panorama short film prize, Berlin
International Film Festival, 2002.
  - 'Shadowy Encounters' - 16 mm, 2002, 15 mins.
  - 'Garden In Khorkhom' - 16 mm, 2003, 14mins.
  - 'Sandias Eustacy' - DVD, 2004, 6mins.
  - 'Hypnotize/Mezmerize' System of a Down' - DVD, 2005, 14 mins.
Produced by: SonyBMG.

5:30 PM on Tuesday, March 28, 2006:

Three Short Films on Identity - Introduced by Nora Armani:
  - 'The Medlar Tree - Diary of an Unemployed Woman' - France, 2004, 36
mins.; U.S. Premiere.
Director/ Screenwriter: Isabelle Ouzounian
Producer: Flagrant Delit Productions
  - 'The Garden of Khorkom' / 'Le Jardin de Khorkom' - France, 1998, 20
mins.; U.S. Premiere.
Director/ Screenwriter: Isabelle Ouzounian
Producer: G.R.E.C.
  - 'Worm/ Vort' - USA, 2005, 32 mins.; Los Angeles Premiere.
Director: James Martin
Writer: Shahe Mankerian
Producers: Jaymes Wheeler, Soseh Haroutounian, Yeghia Tchakmakian, Shahe
Mankerian, Yvette Khalafian.

10:15 PM on Wednesday, March 29, 2006:

  - 'The Night is Bright' / a/k/a 'Bright is the Night' - Ukraine, 2004,
98 mins.; U.S. Premiere.
Director: Roman Balayan
Screenwriters: Rustam Ibragimbekov, Roman Balayan
Producer:  Makdos Film
  - 'Armenian Lullaby' - USA, 2005, 6 mins.; Los Angeles Premiere.
Director/Producer: Irina Patkanian
Author of Poem: Rafael Patkanian (1830-1892)

Information:

Nora Armani
Curator / Producer / Director/ Actor
Armenian Film Makers Program
Silver Lake Film Festival
E-Mails: noraarmani at yahoo.com, info at noraarmani.com
Tel: New York: +917-318-2290; Paris: +33-(0)-6-76-71-94-65
Web: www.noraarmani.com
On the Couch with Nora Armani

Sponsors:

RightHome
Armenian Theatre Commpany
AIWA (Armenian Intern! ational Women's Association)
ADAA (Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance)
Molorak Films
Pride Funding
Naregatsi Institute
The Joan Quinn Profiles
United Annter Films
Parev Productions



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