Feature film by Armenian director at Busan international film festival
A feature film by Mikayel Vatinyan titled JOAN AND THE VOICES, supported by Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema Development, will have a World Premiere at Busan International Film Festival.
The feature film by Mikayel Vatinyan, a participant of DAB 2007, is selected to have a World Premiere at Busan International Film Festival, in Flash Forward world cinema competition.
It’s a film debut by director Mikayel Vatinyan, produced by his co-writer and lead actress of the film, Armine Anda. In October 2007 after the participation in DAB, JOAN AND THE VOICES was selected by Asian Project Market (former PPP) to be the 1st Armenian project to be presented in APM. The project received the GIFFF&PPP AWARD there. The film is completed now, produced by Hoshkee Film and supported by Armenian National Cinema Center, Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema Development, Goteborg International Film Festival Fund, developed within EAVE, where it was again the first Armenian project.
The key team includes DoP Tammam Hamza (Syria), the production designer Ivana Krcadinac (Serbia), composer Arthur Manukyan, who also was the author of the music in the director’s previous short animated film BOJO. In October 2011, selected among 10 other 1st or 2nd feature films representing world cinema, JOAN AND THE VOICES has a world premiere in this years edition of Busan International Film Festival, in one of the world’s most important festivals.