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PRESS RELEASE
January 31, 2005
Embassy of the Republic of Armenia
2225 R Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20008
Tel: 202-319-1976, x. 348; Fax: 202-319-2982
Email: armecon@speakeasy.net; Web: www.armeniaemb.org

Second Pan Armenian Film Festival to be held in Armenia on July 12-17, 2005

Second Yerevan International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" will be held in
Yerevan on July 12-17, 2005, and the organizing committee is inviting
directors and their films from around the world, borne of different cultures
and a variety of aesthetics to convene in Yerevan, on the crossroads of
yesterday's and today's cultures. The objective of the festival is to
promote cross-cultural understanding, and the main theme will be Crossroads.

The Festival organizers would like to invite entries incorporating the
'Crossroads' theme, depicting human experience: the daily lives of ordinary
people, their troubles and joys, their hopes and heartbreaks. There are two
categories for the festival competition: full-length feature films and
documentaries (full length and short). One Grand Prix (Golden Apricot) and
one Special Mention will be presented in each category. Special Award will
be presented for significant contribution into the world cinema.

The festival will have a special competitive section for feature, animation
and documentary films made by filmmakers of Armenian decent. Two Awards will
be presented for the films included in this section. During the Second
Yerevan International Film Festival "Golden Apricot," the organizing
committee will keep the "Yerevan Premiers" and "Retrospective" sections. The
former will include the best art-house films taken in the latest period, and
the latter will present films made by famous film directors.

The application submission deadline is 31 March 2005. Accepted screening
formats are:
film (35 mm) and video (DV, DVCAM, Beta-SP/PAL). The organizing committee
will not screen films from BETA NTSC or DigiBeta. Accepted preview formats
are VHS (PAL or NTSC). The date of production has to be after July 1, 2003.

The deadline for applications is March 31, 2005. For detailed inquiries and
application forms, please contact Susanna Harutyunyan and Mikayel
Stamboltsyan of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Byron
Street, #5, Yerevan, 375009, Armenia, Tel. (+374-1) 564484, email:
info@gaiff.am, web: www.gaiff.am.

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