PRECONDITIONS FOR SHOOTING ARMENIAN-AZERI FILMS ARE APPARENT
Support A1+!One of the main and profitable conditions of films is the source of money necessary for the film shooting and not the skills or the sophistication of the artists. An organization will be set up in the South Caucasus which is aimed at teaching the cinematographers the ways and means of getting financial means.
The representatives of the new cinematographers’ Association of the South Caucasus were in Armenia for a few days and they were looking for producers, directors and scenario writers, who would like to become members of the above-mentioned Association. After the meeting with the Armenian representative of state and private studios they claim that there is an obvious interest in Armenia towards their initiative. The Association which is mainly sponsored and financed by the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency will direct its work in 4 directions. A lobbing of the cinematography field will be organized for the Armenian, Georgian and Azeri specialists, training will be held for different specialists of the field, and the producers will take a course so that the films made by them will meet the European standards. By the way, there is much work to be done on this score. After the collapse of the Soviet cinematography the former USSR countries are unable to finance and make proper films according to the European criteria. “We shall invite experts who will give a training course on the methods how joint production is realized and how to present the project and details of films,” mentioned the representative of the Association Tamara Tatishvili. Thus, the Association is aimed at bringing the cinema field representatives in line with the current international criteria.
By the way, the Association will not finance film production. It will merely provide ground for the right and profitable cinema industry and for the joint film production in conditions of regional cooperation and possibilities. Though Tamara Tatishvili doesn’t think that it will be possible to shoot joint Armenian - Azeri films in close future, she states that the regional establishment, the Cinematographers’ Association of the South Caucasus, will contribute to the realization of the idea. “At present I think that it is improbable to make joint Armenian - Azeri films though I cannot give a definite answer to that question today. If there are such preconditions when people attempt to work and make films together and to develop the field of film industry on the national level, this is already a progress.”
