The Festival de Cannes is a dream festival for filmmakers. The 23-year-old Canadian filmmaker, Xavier Dolan, is back at the festival for his third time in a row.

For Yerevan Magazine’s Summer 2010 cover story, we extensively detailed the Hughes brothers in a feature that hailed their films “genre-defying.”

In his career, James Card, a leader in film preservation, discussed the notion of active participation in cinema. In Seductive Cinema, a fitting title for silent films, he points out that the cinema from that time period was “a matter of participation.”

In 1965, J. Michael Hagopian produced the first film on the Armenian Genocide. The 28-minute documentary explored the history of the Armenian culture under the investigative title Where Are My People?

The recognition of national cinema starts with governmental institutions.