The British Council will support the participation of one of the Armenian film directors in the British Sheffield Doc/Fest Film Festival, which will take place in 2013. The British Council has established this special award within the framework of Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. The winner will be selected by the British Council and the jury of the Golden Apricot Film Festival.

Sheffield Doc/Fest is one of the biggest events in the international documentary calendar, featuring the best representatives of documentary film. The film festival that has been taking place since 1994 is a forum for producers, distributors, filmmakers and emerging talent.

This year, on the occasion of Charles Dickens’s bicentenary, the British Council will screen “Oliver”, a British musical, featured in the part of non-competitive “Book and film” program of the festival. The film was shot in 1968, was nominated for eleven Academy awards and won in six nominations, two of them for the best picture and the best art direction. “Oliver” will be screened on 9 and 12 July in the Puppet theatre and Moscow cinema respectively.

The highlights of Golden Apricot Yerevan international film festival and the British Council collaboration include Armenian directors having their films screened in the Encounters international film festival in Bristol, British films being screened in Yerevan and UK experts running master classes in Armenia.