How are you doing? It’s been a while, eh? It’s time for another short news digest from the studio, isn’t it?
Let’s start from the Neighbors then. This film suffered a lot during this year, it truly deserves a title of an epic project; since January we’ve been filming for it on the most tough places, working with three different armies, dealing with all the power structures both in Armenia and Turkey, and the filming crew went through all kind of international scandals, detentions and trials.
But the work still goes on, we made another trip to the borders this month, another trip is coming up, so, hopefully, not much left to wait.
Asheer Akram, the great sculptor from our latest film, Moving a Mountain, has presented both his work done in Armenia and the film to the public in USA recently. As he claims, the presentation went very well. I will post the photos and more details from the event as soon as we get them.
In the meantime, more interesting stuff is coming up; two short fiction film projects will start in December, besides, soon we start a production of a short film series consisting of three short videos. As always, you can follow the progress of making them on our Current Projects page; not a single studio provides its audience with that kind of opportunity, so a warm thank you would be nice.
And some more news; I’ve spent another week this month working as a trainer in a filmmaking workshop in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, organized by OneMinutesJr. and UNICEF. This time the participants were Kyrgyz and Uzbek teenagers, representatives of the two biggest ethnic groups of this region. As you may know, this city was one of the hottest zones of conflict between these two groups this year, that is why the subject of the workshop was, obviously, peace. All the participants had a tragic experience during this conflict, and all of their wishes and dreams were about living in peace. Each of the teenagers produced a one-minute-long film during the workshop. If you’re interested, check out Chris Schuepp’s online diary of the workshop (as well as of the previous ones).
Ok, that’s enough for today. As you see, lots of stuff is going on here. So I better stop writing and go back to work.
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