Thursday, March 21 2019 17:32

ArmInfo.At the 154th session of the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund held in Bucharest on March 12-16, the" Aurora's Sunrise" joint  Armenian-German documentary animation project by Bars Media (producer  - Vardan Hovhannisyan, director - Inna Sahakyan) received an  unprecedented assessment.

At its 154th meeting held from 12 to 15 March 2019 in Bucharest, the  Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed  to provide support to Aurora's Sunrise, an Armenian- German  co-production directed by Inna Sahakyan.  As ArmInfo was told in the  National Cinema Center of Armenia, by unanimous decision of  international experts, it will be allocated 140 thousand euros of  financial assistance, which is 24% of the total budget.  According to  the cinema center, the project of the "Bars Media" company was rated  at 10 points, and this is the highest score on the  " Eurimage  "rating scale.

Aurora's Sunrise  is a joint Armenian-German film project,  implemented jointly with Gebruder Beetz German film production  company (producer Christian Beetz), which will provide 27.15% of the  project's budget. In turn, the Bars Media Company will be allocated  funds by the National Cinema Center of Armenia (45 million drams).

The film tells about the life story of Arshaluys Mardiganian, (she is  Aurora Mardiganian,). A 14-year-old girl, having gone through the  horrors of genocide, capture, persecution, thanks to her strength of  will, rationality and determination, in 1917 found salvation in the  United States. And in 1919, Arshaluys agreed to play herself in the  "Auction Souls", silent Hollywood film, which tells about the ordeals  of life.

In total, out of 47 projects presented at the Bucharest Eurimage  Summit, 18 projects received support ( 15 fiction films, 2  documentaries and 1 animation project )The total amount of this  session was 4 million 397 thousand euros( ?4,397,000. ).