Jordan has chosen Sareen Hairabedian’s documentary My Candy Land to signify it within the Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie class of the 97th Academy Awards.
The documentary follows 11-year-old Vrej, who goals of turning into a dentist in his village in Artsakh within the area Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been on the coronary heart of a violent dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia because the Eighties.
When battle erupts once more, Vrej and his household flee, solely to return to a devastated homeland after their individuals misplaced the struggle. As Vrej faces the brand new harsh realities and prepares for future battles, he wrestles with the burden of his hopes and trauma.
The movie is New York-based Jordanian-Armenian director Hairabedian’s debut characteristic and follows her 40-minute doc We Are Not Performed Yet for HBO documentary which received a number of awards.
The Candy Land premiered on the Sheffield DocFest earlier this yr forward of taking part in plenty of festivals together with the Amman Worldwide Movie Pageant in July, the place it received the Jury Award for Greatest Characteristic Documentary and the FIPRESCI Award for Greatest Characteristic Size Arab Documentary.
The documentary is produced by Azza Hourani underneath the banner of HAI Artistic in co-production with Sister Productions and Soilsíu Movies, a co-production of ITVS in affiliation with ARTE France and World of HA Productions.
Hourani has labored as a producer and assistant director for 15 years, with credit together with Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider, Abu Bakr Shawky’s Hajjan and Amjad Al Rasheed’s Inshallah A Boy, Jordan’s entry for the 96th Academy Awards.
Co-producers are Julie Paratian and David Rane. Govt producers are Beth Levison, Carrie Lozano, Hallee Adelman, Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh. Robina Riccitiello is co-EP.
The choice was made by a committee overseen by the Royal Movie Fee – Jordan (RFC).
