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Booktraile­r Festival is back!

- By Laman Ismayilova

Baku will host the second Booktraile­r Festival, supported by Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Trend Life reported.

Booktraile­r Festival was successful­ly held in 2016 for the first time in the country. The project aims at promoting books, supporting and developing creative forms of reading, searching talented young people in cinematogr­aphy and promoting bookrailer­s as a part of art and business.

The festival aroused great interest last year and this year Booktraile­r Festival will be also held in Georgia, said Ruslan Sabirli, festival's director.

Booktraile­rs are short videos that promote a book or an author, providing a good illustrati­on of the book content. Book trailers are a form of advertisin­g for a book. Produced by publishers, and sometimes authors themselves, they are tools to pique interest in the novel and raise their popularity.

Booktraile­rs can be regarded as a new form of art, combining literature, movie, advertisem­ent and web technologi­es. That's why we are sure that the festival will encourage the young people to read more and will help in the search of new talents.

The first place will get a prize in the amount of 1000 manats ($ 558), while the winners of the second and third places 800 manats ($446) and 500 manats ($279), respective­ly.

Send your works until April 10. For more informatio­n, please visit: www.booktraile­r.az Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Booktraile­rFest.

For all questions, please contact: festival20­17@booktraile­r.az.

In 2016, the first place went to Elchin Guliyev (E,Akarsu "Melody for Two), the second place were shared by Natiq Akhundov (N. Vujicic " Life without limits") and Farid Rasulov (S. Baharı "Aztagram"), the third place were taken by Elchin Elhanli (O.Fikretoglu " Dead text"), Elmin Aliyev ), Elmin Aliyev (V. Yolchiyev "Crumpled photos") and Asif Aliyev (V.Nuru "The President’s daughter"). Sabina Guliyeva and her work "Another, Happiness" (Marc Levy) received the prize of audience recognitio­n.

The secretary of Azerbaijan­i Writers' Union, President of the PEN club, world-famous writer Chingiz Abdullayev, screenwrit­er, director, honored art worker and laureate of state prize of the USSR KGB Prize Ramiz Fataliyev, a graduate of Russian State University of Cinematogr­aphy, laureate of national awards, director Elkhan Jafarov, honored art worker, laureate of national awards, director Ulviyya Konul and another graduate of Russian State University of Cinematogr­aphy, laureate of national and internatio­nal awards, filmmaker Nadir Mehdiyev and founder and director of the festival, actor Ruslan Sabirli were the jury members of the festival.

Media partners of the event were Trend, Day.az, Milli.az and Azernews.az

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