Respect the Film-Goers: Let=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Improve Next Year=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Golden Apricot Film Festival

00:40, July 16, 2012

The 9th annual Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan came to a close yesterday amidst the pomp and circumstance that such events seem to automatically spawn.

While I wasn't at the closing ceremony, I can just picture the throngs of average citizens milling about, alongside the ranks of the nation's cultural elite, trying to push their way into the Moscow Cinema.

Red carpets, boisterous bouts of applause, and the speeches of praise and thanks for yet another job well done…

I sure the organizers of the festival are pleased with the show they put on. But before the organizing committee gets to work on next's year's festival, I would like to ask them – Just who is the festival for?   Read more... (813 words)

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