Manaki to honor Mosfilm boss
Shakhnazarov to receive Golden Camera 300
Variety.com
Thursday, September 18, 2008
By NICK HOLDSWORTH
MOSCOW – The head of Russia’s top moviemaking complex, Mosfilm Studios,
is to be honored with a lifetime achievement award at Macedonia’s 29th
International Cinematographers’ Film Festival Manaki Brothers, which
opens next week.
Karen Shakhnazarov, one of Russia’s top directors who has headed Mosfilm
since 1998, will receive a special Golden Camera 300 award at the
festival, which runs Sept. 27-Oct. 3 in Skopje and Bitola, fest
organizers said Thursday.
Shakhnazarov, 56, has a career stretching back to the mid-1970s; his
latest film `The Vanished Empire’ – which he directed and produced –
will be screened at the festival in his honor.
Read the full article at:
ml