New Website Thing #3

As you may have noticed, the website was down for a couple of days; we were changing the design of some of the pages, and the database was damaged during the testings (don’t ask me why, ok?).

Moush, our cruel web-mastermind, was working day and night to finish the planned changes and recover the website. And here is a short description of what has been changed; both films and current projects are now much more integrated with the blog. Which means, if you open, let’s say, Moving a Mountain page, you may always see what are the latest news on the blog concerning this exact project. Besides, you can look through all the photos, videos and awards of the project in separate albums. And there are some minor changes all over the website, for example, you can have basic technical information about each film on its right sidebar (more detailed technical info will be available for every film when our online store is ready).

All these improvements will let you follow the progress of every current project we work on much closer and get all the latest updates on films and projects that interest you. Although I know that you are interested in every single thing that happens at the studio, aren’t you?

Coming soon: a separate page that will bring together all the videos available on the website; films, trailers, teasers and production videos (yes, we are going to make those from time to time now, too).

You see, we do our best to make it easy and fun for you to find any needed information here. Aren’t we the nicest studio ever?

Paper Garden Awarded in 01SJ Biennal

One of our films, Paper Garden, was awarded in a film competition organized by Adobe Foundation and ZER01. The film was featured as a part of the 2010 01SJ Biennal.

Paper Garden is a short documentary showing the environmental situation in Yerevan. The film was made for the Beyond Green international film series of ListenUp! and Adobe Youth Voices.

Not bad folks, eh? For the third time this month, congratulations to us!

Green Day #4

Our next interesting meeting was organized with two Armenian filmmakers, Arman Yeritsyan and Inna Sahakyan, the directors of the documentary “The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia”, a touching and fascinating film about the dying art of tightrope dancing and their last carriers produced by Bars Media studio.

Arman Yeritsyan is a well-known documentary filmmaker. Most of his previous works, including “Under the Open Sky” and “Hello, Fellini” were awarded in a number of prestigious international film festivals.

The meeting, which included also the screening of the film, lasted till late evening, despite the heavy rain and terrible wind.

A short description of the film for those who are interested:

Zhora (76) and Knyaz (77) were once the most celebrated masters of tightrope dancing in Armenia. Today, they are the only surviving performers who can keep this ancient art alive against the current of contemporary society. Having been bitter rivals throughout their lives, a common objective has finally brought them together: to train the only student of tightrope dancing left in the country. Hovsep, a sixteen year old orphan boy, has to decide whether or not to accept the role of the last tightrope dancer in Armenia, in a society that has abandoned both him and the art of tightrope dancing.

Check out the previous Green Days of the studio, by the way. Why shouldn’t you?