GOVERNMENT PROMISES FUNDS FOR DIGITIZATION OF DOCUMENTARIES

Armenpress
Dec 13 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS: The government of Armenia has
promised to release 66 million drams annually up to 2011 for a
wholesale digitization of 1,350 documentary films kept at Armenia’s
National Archives.

Amatuni Virabian, head of the Archives, said every year 450
documentaries will be digitized. He said a tender will be announced
for the project. CS Film, the new owner of the ArmenFilm Studio,
has pledged, under an agreement it signed with the government, to
digitize free of charge 396 feature, documentary and other films shot
by the studio in the past.

The CS Films has also pledged to help shoot 50 motion films and 11
cartoons. Virabian said the CS Films has digitized so far only 8 films.