The festival of young film directors launched in Yerevan

Since November 8 – 18 in Yerevan will take place the 4th republican festival of young directors. In the festival will participate the art directors representing Yerevan as well as directors from Gyumri, Vanadzor, Kapan, and Goris.

The organizer of the festival, Sona Meloyan speaking about the ideas that say that the “theatre life is dead”, “critical” mentioned that the experts, the foreign guests who had participated in the previous festivals say that they have seen such “theatrical boom” in no other CIS country but Armenia.

The speaker said the experts find exclusive the fact that even Georgia which is thought to be theatrical country the youngest director is 40 years old, whereas in Armenia the directors partaking in the theatrical festival are only 30 years old. Half of them have already passed qualification in Moscow.

“In Armenia the return of the youth to this profession after having lost the interest towards it for a long period, as well as the prestige now is having a strong growth”, - mentioned S. Meloyan.

The organizer also added that the RA Culture Ministry and the Union of the theater workers will participate in the festival.