Azerbaijani documentary wins "Faito Doc Festival" award
Baku, September 4 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijani film director Rodion Ismayilov`s film "Koc" ("Camping Ground") has won the 6th "Faito Doc Festival" award in Naples, Italy.
The festival honored new and cutting-edge foreign independent films in several competition categories. Partnering with notable film industry companies, film educators, directors, producers, and writers, competition provides a forum for talented filmmakers to be recognized for their work, creativity, and achievements.
The Faito doc Festival opens its doors to all the documentaries, long and short, from road movie to more experimental films but with a clear and now confirmed preference for poetic films, with interesting testimonies and writers-directors sensitive towards their characters, with an acute and original point of view, but also where you can feel a lengthy investigation and a thorough research work.
The 52-minute "Koc" film was shot in summer of 2010 in Azerbaijan. The shooting took place in the country`s Tovuz, Goygol and Dashkesan districts.
Rodion Ismayilov was born in the Kohnagala village of Tovuz region and graduated from the State Cinema and Television University of St. Petersburg in 1998. At present, he is a director of "DS film" producer centre in Moscow.
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