We are pleased to inform that this year’s edition of Taos Talking Picture Festival, has nominated Don Askarian’s ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD, as one of the competitor-films of the festival’s prestigious international prize.

The festival screenings of ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD will take place during the dates from 11-14th of April 2002.

"We are delighted that you have accepted our invitation to screen ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD at the 2002 Taos Talking Picture Festival, April 11 - 14. Every year, we look at thousands of films and when one shines above the rest, as ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD did, it is indeed a pleasure.

Don Askarian, recently honored with a Harvard Film Archive retrospective, is considered the greatest living Armenian filmmaker. In Askarian's latest film, which he describes as “a bloody comedy,” a man in exile remembers a childhood of magic and mayhem, complete with grave robbers, brutal assassinations, horses, and men buried in hot ash. As striking a visual feast as one can find, this is an extravagant and crystalline treasure, a film whose rewards far outweigh its considerable demands".

Kelly Clement

Director of Programming
Taos Talking Picture Festival

Retrospectives and exclusive screenings of Don Askarians films have previously been shown at various locations as:
International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1992, Holland;
Philadelphia Film Festival of World Cinema, 1993, USA;
International Film Festival Figueira da Foz, 1993, Portugal;
International Film Festival Sao Paulo, 1993, Brazil;
ORB (Ostdeutscher Rundfunk ), TV, 1993, Germany;

Potsdam Film Museum, 1994, Germany;
Tokyo International Film Festival (in Kyoto), 1994, Japan;
Don Askarian Film Festival, Yerevan, 1996, Armenia;
The International Filmfestival Vlaanderen,Gent, 2001, Belgium;
Cine World Festival Sarasota, 2001, USA;
The Asiaticafilmmediale, Rome, 2001 Italy;
Don Askarian’s films AVETIK, KOMITAS and ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD, were shown in the section “Directors in Focus” -  by Harvard Film Archive.

the press release about is to be found online on

http://www.don-askarian.am/PRESSRELEASE.html

For more information, please contact the German office:
Frau Gaby Schein
ASKARIAN FILM
Niebuhrstrasse 69
10629 Berlin
Tel./Fax: 030-3246023
e-mail: askarianfilm@web.de

With Kindest Regards,

Nune Hovhannisyan
DON FILM PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION
Aigedzori str.69a, apt.9
375019 Yerevan
Armenia
Tel/Fax: 003741 22 70 75
e-mail: nunehovannessian@yahoo.com
http://www.don-askarian.am