MIKAYEL VATINYAN’S JOAN AND THE VOICES WILL HAVE A WORLD PREMIERE AT BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
AZG DAILY
04-10-2011
JOAN AND THE VOICES, a feature film by Mikayel Vatinyan, a
participant of DAB 2007, is selected to have a World Premiere at
Busan International Film Festival, in Flash Forward world cinema
competition. It’s a film debut by director Mikayel Vatinyan, produced
by his co-writer and lead actress of the film, Armine Anda. In October
2007 after the participation in DAB, JOAN AND THE VOICES was selected
by Asian Project Market (former PPP) to be the 1st Armenian project
to be presented in APM. There the project received the GIFFF&PPP AWARD.
The film is completed now produced by Hoshkee Film and supported
by Armenian National Cinema Center, Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema
Development, Goteborg International Film Festival Fund, developed
within EAVE, where it was again the first Armenian project. The
key team includes DoP Tammam Hamza (Siria), the production designer
Ivana Krcadinac (Serbia), composer Arthur Manukyan, who also was the
author of the music in the director’s previous short animated film
BOJO. In October 2011, selected among 10 other 1st or 2nd feature
films representing world cinema, JOAN AND THE VOICES has a world
premiere in this years edition of Busan International Film Festival,
in one of the world’s most important festivals.
From: Baghdasarian