Young filmmaker Lusin Dink, the niece of a famous journalist Hrant Dink murdered by Turkish radicals, will create a Journey to Bitlis film, featuring William Saroyan’s trip to Bitlis in 1964.
The project of the film was announced a winner at Istanbul-hosted Armenia-Turkey film platform on promotion of documentaries and awarded with a prize of USD 30000 instituted by Eurasia Partnership Foundation.
Archive materials and photos will be used in a film drawing on Saroyan’s short stories, with a road to Bitlis to be used as film set. Cooperation with Armenian animators in the course of film creation is planned.
