YEREVAN, JULY 14, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival is presented this year in the list of the programs of the Golden Apricot 6th International Film Festival. The Margaret Mead Festival's prize winners of different years as well as Middle Asian and Armenian films are involved in the program. The program is aimed to develop this film festival of documentary films among the local film producers in Armenia, to present Armenian and regional documentary films with the films chosen by Margaret Mead and to encourage the exchange. The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival of New York is the most voluminous and first-rate annual show of foreign documentary films in the United States. The festival was founded by the American Museum of Natural History, in honour of leading anthropologist Margaret Mead's 75th birthday anniversary and 50th anniversary of her activity at the museum. The festival represents every year a wide choice of works in the sense of both form and content. The festival is striking by excellent choice of films where various and urgent themes are touched upon, and a wide series of problems and perspectives is presented. The festival organizers make a serious choice, taking into consideration both quality and regional and thematic variety of the claims. According to the Press Service of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, Ariella Ben-Dov, the Artistic and Festival Director of the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History will represent the films at the Armenian festival. Besides Yerevan, the program will be also represented in the regions, Gyumri and Kapan. The program is implemented with the assistance of the OSI Arts and Culture internet program of Budapest.

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