Armenian Culture Minister intends to stimulate domestic film industry
ArmInfo. In 2016, 41 cultural projects were implemented in Armenia, including in the international format, Armenian Minister of Culture Armen Amiryan announced at the budget hearings in the Armenian Parliament.
According to the Minister, in 2016, 712,383 people visited museums of Armenia. At the same time, he stressed that compared with the same period of 2016, this year there is an increase in visits to museums by 20-30%. Minister predicted that by the end of the tourist season this figure could reach 45%.
According to Amiryan, in the reporting year, 971 museum exhibits were restored. Another 2303 exhibits are subject to recovery. "The museum funds were enriched by 9,836 exhibits as a result of excavations and donations," he said, adding that many exhibits appeared in the funds, and it became necessary to create new museums.
He also informed that in 2016 its doors after repair again opened house-museum of Martiros Saryan. Repair work is carried out in the museums of Derenik Demerchyan, in Goris, in the house museum of Sero Khanzadyan, in Dsekh in the house museum of Hovhannes Tumanyan.
Speaking about the domestic film industry, Minister said that it is planned to open a film school with a training period of 6 months and invite representatives of international film companies, for example, experts from New York Film Academy. "Creating the institute of cinema, we will try to solve these problems, and later, our experts will be able to shoot 8-10 films," the minister said.
To stimulate domestic film industry, Amiryan also suggests creating a national cinema network that will include 30-40 cinemas, which will provide 400 million views of one film. It is also planned to give free passes to schools for the introduction of the younger generation to the cinema art.