Celebrities call to join Booktrailer Festival [VIDEO]

22 March 2018 12:44 (UTC+04:00)

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By Laman Ismayilova

Famous people of Azerbaijan - People's Artists Rafig Aliyev and Hamid Omarov, Honored Art Workers Ayaz Salayev and Orkhan Fikretoglu, Honored Artists Sanuber Iskenderli, Bahram Bagirzade, Murad Dadashov and Nargiz Jalilova, TV and radio presenter Rahib Azeri, and traveler Azer Garib are calling young people to join the third Booktrailer Festival.

Booktrailer Festival is timed to the World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day, held annually on April 23.

The festival is held under the motto "Popularize the book, be popular with the book!".

Supported by Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture and Tourism and International Mugham Center, 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 first place will get a prize in the amount of 1,000 manats, while the winners of the second and third places 800 manats and 500 manats, respectively.

The festival is held annually from 2016.

Applications for participation in the Booktrailer Festival will end on April 8, 2018.

For more information, please visit: www.booktrailer.az

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/BooktrailerFest

For all questions, please contact: [email protected]

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

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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Lam_Ismayilova