WINNER: AMERICAN MIRROR lands top prize Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award
LOS ANGELES, CA. – “American Mirror – Intimations of Immortality”, directed, produced, written and edited by Arthur Balder, lands top prize Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award.
The institute, championing the legacy of the brothers-in-arts Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990) & Mikhail Vartanov (1937-2009) who overcame persecution and won the admiration of cinema’s greatest artists,
has awarded this year Susan Sarandon for ‘American Mirror – Intimations of Immortality’, directed and produced by Arthur Balder.
Francis Ford Coppola congratulated the 2015 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award recipients, the Grammy-winning rock band System Of A Down for their historic justice world tour Wake Up the Souls. The event at Chateau Marmont Hollywood on 21 October 2015 benefited the restoration of Parajanov: The Last Spring film trilogy at UCLA. Agnieszka Holland has also released a statement for the occasion.
One of cinema’s greatest masters, Martin Scorsese, accepted the 2014 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award on behalf of his World Cinema Project and The Film Foundation for the restoration of The Color of Pomegranates and introduced the masterpiece at the 52nd New York Film Festival. NYFF first screened the film in 1980, and hosted Sergei Paradjanov in 1988.
