“Romeo Is Bleeding” directed by Jason Zeldes was a hit at the 2015 St Louis International Film Festival winning both the St. Louis Film Critics Association Joe Pollack and Joe Williams Awards for Best Documentary Feature and the Best of Fest Audience Choice Award – Leon Award for Best Documentary Film. In Romeo Is Bleeding, a young writer Donté Clark growing up in a city divided by a turf war, channels Shakespeare to help heal […]
The Turkish film LOST BIRDS directed by Ela Alyamac and Aren Perdeci is the big winner of the 2015 Arpa International Film Festival, taking the awards for Best Feature Film, Best Director for Ela Alyamac and Aren Perdeci, and Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Awards. MY LIFE IN CHINA directed by Kenneth Eng is the winner of the Best Documentary Award. Lost Birds is set in 1915 in an Armenian village in Anatolia. Bedo and Maryam return […]
The World Premier of LOST BIRDS, a heartwarming film from Turkey, will open the 18th Arpa International Film Festival taking place November 13 to 15, 2015 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. This year’s Arpa International Film Festival focuses strongly on humanitarian issues internationally such as genocide, holocaust, human freedom, women’s rights, homelessness and many others. LOST BIRDS, the Opening night’s World Premier Film is from Turkey in Armenian and Turkish language filmed in Capadoccia, Turkey, by Aren Perdeci and […]