PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Sona Karapoghosyan, project manager of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival.
Sona Karapoghosyan is project manager at the Golden Apricot International Film Festival. GAIFF is the biggest festival in Armenia, and is held in its capital city, Yerevan. The festival showcases documentaries and fiction features, and it includes an industry platform (GAIFF Pro), paying special attention to the Lesser Caucasus region – specifically: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Turkey.
During the 2019 edition of New Horizons, we talked to some of the participants of the ICO’s course for festival professionals, “Developing Your Film Festival”. “Developing Your Film Festival” is an intensive training program for professionals working in the festival industry. The training is organized by the London Independent Cinema Office. Each year, it is held as a part of a different European film festival. So far participants of more than 170 film festivals around the globe took part in “Developing Your Film Festival”. The instructors were experts of Berlinale, Hot Docs, as well as Rotterdam and Toronto film festivals. Training participants will have the opportunity to learn how to increase their audience, promote the festival internationally, gain sponsors and more.