On December 24 the “Golden Apricot” Yerevan International Film Festival, the Armenian National Film Academy organized a jubilee event at the Moscow Cinema House dedicated to the 60th birth anniversary of film director Vigen Chaldranyan. His “The Silence of the Master” was screening which premiered on December 25, 2015. “The Silence of the Master” is dedicated to the memory of Komitas. “When I was in the US, I saw how everyone was talking about Congressman Adam Schiff awarding Vigen a big prize by making him the ambassador of cultural of the Armenian nation in the world. It is a great honor for the Armenian nation, Vigen and cinematography that we have such an ambassador who can introduce the Armenian culture and the type of the Armenian man,” – noted the President of the Armenian National Film Academy, Founding President of “Golden Apricot” and film director Harutyun Khachatryan.
He handed the “Anahit” prize of the Academy to Chaldranyan. And the artistic director of “Golden Apricot” film festival, Susanna Harutyunyan, handed Parajanov’s Thaler to Vigen Chaldranyan which until then was granted to the masters of the world cinema. “As a film critic, I think I have shapes with the generation of Armenian filmmakers which broke into the Armenian cinema in the 80s and brought a new breath, fresh air, and formed what we call a new Armenian film which shaped the cinema facial features of the independent Armenia. Today, the most vivid representatives of it are standing here, and we are celebrating the 60th birth anniversary of the film-devotee and my friend Vigen Chaldranyan,” – said Susanna Harutyunyan. The Minister of Culture, Armen Amiryan, awarded Chaldranyan to a “Gregory of Narek” commemorative medal.
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