Moscow Announces Diamond Butterfly Film Award Ceremony on Nov. 24

Entries from over 20 countries will be vying for the coveted Diamond Butterfly Film Award being hosted by Moscow on November 24.

According to Consul General of the Russian Federation in Chennai Valerii Khodzhaev, winners will receive cash prizes and the best movie will be rewarded a sum equivalent of US $1million dollars. 

The finalists will be presented with a “Diamond Butterfly” statue containing 5,000 diamonds and made by the famous artist Yuri



Kuper whose works have been exhibited in the best art galleries of Moscow, Paris, NY, Geneva.

This event, being organised by Eurasia Academy of Cinematographic Arts, is already equated by many with the Oscars in terms of its scale and importance and is one of the most anticipated initiatives of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Russian Culture Foundation aimed at promotion of national cinema as an instrument of traditional values, history and cultural sovereignty, says Khodzhaev