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Armenpress: Oscar winning director Terry George to be president of Golden Apricot 19th Yerevan IFF jury

Oscar winning director Terry George to be president of Golden Apricot 19th Yerevan IFF jury

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 09:47, 8 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 8, ARMENPRESS. Irish screenwriter, director Terry George will be president of the Golden Apricot 19th Yerevan IFF International Feature Film competition jury, the Golden Apricot said in a statement.

“He was nominated for two Oscars: Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (1993; In the Name of the Father), and Best Writing, Original Screenplay (2004; Hotel Rwanda). In 2012, he received an Academy Award in the live-action short film category for The Shore.

Famous works include The Boxer, Some Mother's Son, and In the Name of the Father, Hotel Rwanda, other movies.

Terry George's films featured world movie stars such as Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Joaquin Phoenix and others.

In 2016, George directed the film "Promise" about the Armenian Genocide, starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon, James Cromwell, Christian Bale, Angela Sarafyan and other actors”, the statement says.

The 19th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival will take place on July 10-17 this year. As always, this year, the International Film Festival will present to the public films from different countries of the world in the competition sections, as well as films from the most prestigious film festivals.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS