COURSES OF JOURNALISTS COVERING SPHERE OF CINEMA TO BE ORGANIZED IN ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan
March 12, 2008

YEREVAM, MARCH 11, NOYAN TAPAN. For the purpose of developing
cinema-journalism in Armenia and regional countries, the "Golden
Apricot" international film festival and the "Armenian Association
of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists" together with the editorial
staffs of Azg (Nation), and Golos Armenii (Voice of Armenia) newspapers
have initiated the implementation of the "Cinema journalism without
borders" program. The program aims not only at attaching importance
to the role of cinema journalism, but also at deepening the creative
capacities of journalists covering the sphere of cinema, as well
as cooperating with their colleagues from neighbour countries and
becoming acquainted with the professional experience gained by them.

The "Cinema journalism without borders" program will be held in three
stages: a two-day workshop on the "Problems and peculiarities of
the modern cinema journalism" subject will take place in April-May
of this year with the participation of Armenian and Russian film
critics. Courses will be held between June 30 and July 10 in
cooperation with the "Golden Apricot" international film festival
and Azg daily, which will be conducted by famous cinema journalists
invited from Holland: Peter van Bueren and Andre Vardenburg. At the
end of the program the participants will be given an opportunity to
cover the fifth "Golden Apricot" film festival. The covered materials
will be published in the festival daily, which will be published on
July 13-20 as an appendix to Azg periodical.

In addition to this, a special competition will be organized in
cooperation with the "Golden Apricot" international film festival
and Golos Armenii newspaper for all the media covering the "Golden
Apricot 2008". At the end of the competition the authors of the three
journalistic works having covered the festival as good as possible will
be awarded. The results of the competition will be summed up after the
end of the festival and be published in the Golos Armenii newspaper.