The Festival was established in 2003.
Founder and President: Gagik Ghazareh.
Founding Organization: "Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art| foundation

Festival Objectives:

• Assistance to the authors (regardless of their educational and professional preparedness) who have a wish of self-expression using different cinematographic means (video, cell phone, professional camera)
• The Festival is laboratory productive, i.e. it provides assistance to the authors during the whole process of the creation of the shot.
• The Festival is inclined to fill up the gaps the Armenian Cinema has inherited form the USSR.
• The ideology of the Festival is the openness and sincerity about Cinema. Nothing is forbidden in the Cinema. The Festival creates an atmosphere of healthy discussion and debate.

· The festival advocates the development of modern technologies, the idea of Film Without Film. The quality of the work is seen inside the author and the idea; the technological means are not so important. Cinema is not a "wrapped up" art.

"One Minute – One Shot" is the festival of the authors participating in it.

The festival awards are:

• Best shot
• Authors' Choice
• Special diplomas of the Jury
• Festival President's Award

The films of the authors are presented by different Armenian TV companies. The Festival provides corresponding information and presents the works in different international Festivals.

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