CE EUROMAGES FUND TO ALLOCATE 600,000 EUROS FOR PRODUCING LA MASSERIA DELLE ALLODOLE
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 20 2006
YEREVAN, March 20. /ARKA/. The CE Euromages Fund decided at its session
held March 9 to allocate 600 thousand euros to Italian movie directors
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for producing La Masseria Delle Allodole,
a film focused on Armenian Genocide. All jurors but Turkey voted in
favor of the idea of financing the project.
Euromages Fund President Jacques Toubaun, supporting the decision,
condemned Turkey for Armenian Genocide. Despite all protests voiced
by Euromages Turkish member, jurors remained stack to their stance.
This is a screen version of La Masseria Delle Allodole bestseller
written by Anthony Arslan.
Euromages Fund was founded in 1988 for promoting European cinema
industry. Now it includes 32 states.
The 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire was the first
genocide of XX century. Over 1.5mln Armenians have been slain in
this genocide.
The fact of the genocide is recognized by many countries – Uruguay
(the first country that recognized the fact of the genocide),
Russia, France, Argentina, Greece, Italian Parliament’s Lower House,
many states of the U.S.A., parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina,
Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland and Communities House
of Canadian Parliament and Polish Seym.