Sirakan Abroyan, Cold Supper
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Harout Arakelian, Planet Zorthian
Born in Rhode Island to a family that emigrated from Iran through Lebanon, Harout has been involved in the arts from a young age. Hip hop culture and Jazz music have shaped his artistic sensibilities. Harout holds a passionate belief in the potential of cinema to entertain and educate. Enjoying the dynamics of the collaborative element of cinema, he has worked on many projects throughout the years and has completed two shorts.

Serge Avedikian, One Fine Morning
Born in Yerevan, Armenia in December of 1955. Avedikian’s parents were born in France, children of survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. In 1947, influenced by Stalin's and Maurice Thorez' propaganda, they left to rejoin the motherland, where Avedikian attended the French school of Yerevan. At the age of fifteen along with his family, he returned to France. He got his stage debut in college, in his professor's amateur theater company.

Don Bernier, In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian
Don Bernier has been making film, video and photographic work since the early 1990s. A Maine native, Bernier received a B.F.A. from Kansas City Art Institute before going on to earn a graduate degree in media study at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo. Bernier has taught production and media theory in colleges and community-based technology centers in western New York, the San Francisco Bay area and greater Boston. In late 2001, Bernier and his wife, Tina Erickson, relocated to New York City to focus more on documentary film and television production. Over the next three years, Bernier documented the goings-on of the Nut Museum and its curator, Elizabeth Tashjian (a.k.a. The Nut Lady), and produced, directed and edited In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian, his first feature-length non-fiction film. Currently, Bernier is in production on a documentary about another eccentric collector.

Nigol Bezjian, Muron
Nigol Bezjian has made many films and participated in numerous international film festivals. He is most noted for his feature film Chickpeas which premiered (in Competition) at the Cinema Giovani International Film Festival in Turin. Subsequently Chickpeas was shown commercially and screened in scores of international film festivals. His new films include an independent full-length documentary titled Kerezman (Cemetary) and a feature film titled Muron (Chrism).

Armen Boudjikanian (Kanian), I Don’t Feel Safe Around You
Karl Armen Boudjikanian (Armen Kanian) is a Montreal based filmmaker born in Beirut, Lebanon. He has been a fan of animation since childhood. He moved with his family to Canada in 1991 and graduated from Concordia University in 2004, majoring in Film Animation. Armen continues making animated shorts using various techniques, and he regularly contributes to the Frames Per Second animation magazine

Anna Condo, Alchemy
Anna Condo was born in Yerevan, Armenia and grew up in Nogent-sur-Marne, France. In 1989, she moved to New York City. Anna studied acting in France and in the US and has starred in critically acclaimed short and feature films including Wedding in Galilee directed by Michel Khlefi, The Waste Land directed by Timon Koulmasis, and Les Amants Terribles directed by Danielle Dubroux. Since 2000, she has been playing a bigger part behind the camera. First as the writer/producer of  New York Socialite then as the writer/director of award-winning films Alchemy and Candid, and more recently Troubles Sens . .

Ara Ebrahimian, Pick Me Up
Ara Ebrahimian is an Armenian filmmaker, born in 1972 in Tehran, Iran. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1979 to flee the Iranian Revolution. He has a B.A. in Philosophy and a M.F.A. in Cinema. Pick Me Up is his graduate thesis film. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.

Hryar Anmahouni Eulmessekian, Bruitage
Born Anmahouni in 1958, Eulmessekian in 1959, both in Beirut,Lebanon. Graduated from Nichan Palandjian, better known as Djemaran, which literally translates to promenade, something I took to heart. Attended the Academie Libanaise Des Beaux Arts 1982-1984. Moved to San Francisco in the Orwellian year (no longer a joke), leaving behind the ravages of the first 10 years of a fierce civil war, where 3 million others and I were, and whom we left behind still are, potential collateral damage for the tiny and powerful. B.F.A. and M. F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute 1992. Started sNOWfLAKES productions (to make a living). Other than a few single channel videos, my work is almost exclusively not yet disciplined, interdisciplinary and has been exhibited, screened or broadcast in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York and Yerevan. One of the founding members of the San Francisco Armenian Film Festival, I also serve on its curatorial team. Left San Francisco for Los Angeles in 2005.

Thea Farhadian, ZeroPointTwo
Thea Farhadian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the Bay Area. She studied Arabic classical music in New York City and in Cairo, holds an M.A .from San Francisco State in Interdisciplinary Arts and is currently working on her M.F.A. in Electronic Music at Mills College. Her work has been seen internationally, including at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, the Alternative Museum in New York City, and Raumschiff Zitrone in Berlin. In 2002, she co-founded the Armenian Film Festival in New York City and currently is one of the curators for the film festival in San Francisco.

Stephanie Tamar Garoian, Raisin Debt
Stephanie Tamar Garoian is an M.F.A. candidate at Temple University in Film and Media Arts, where she studies producing and directing. As a director, Stephanie’s past films focus on the generational gap in coping with tragic events. Her upcoming thesis looks to redefine femininity in the sports genre. Her future interests lie in documenting the struggles of Armenian women after the Genocide and Soviet rule. As a producer, Stephanie’s work Shelley Barry’s Entry has screened at festivals in the US and abroad, including the Encounters Documentary Film Festival, South Africa and the Philadelphia Festival of Independents. In addition to her own work, Stephanie is also the Co-Director of NextFrame Film Festival, the world’s largest touring student film festival.

Hagop Goudsouzian, My Son Shall Be Armenian
Born in Egypt, Hagop Goudsouzian is of Armenian descent and currently lives in Toronto. He has worked extensively in film and video production.

In partnership with TVOntario–TFO, he has produced and directed a number of television series, including Dossiers XXX, a documentary series in which science and technology are presented from a teenage perspective. As well as being a producer and director, Hagop Goudsouzian is also a photographer; his work was exhibited at the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec before touring various North American galleries.

Hagop Goudsouzian is presently working on the development of Three Waves–Trois Vagues, a video self-portrait in which he pursues his quest for identity, a theme that also inspired him to make My Son Shall Be Armenian.

Karnik Gregorian, Dad's Dishes
Born in February of 1972 in the village of Giengen, Karnik Gregorian is a filmmaker and freelance journalist. His latest works include Dad’s Dishes and My Mother’s Eyes.

Hagop Kaneboughazian, Ara's Flight
Hagop Kaneboughazian was born in 1979 in Beirut, Lebanon. Upon moving to California in 1989, he discovered morning cartoons and a new passion for creating art and animation. While still in high school, he obtained an internship with a 3D animation startup based in Fresno, CA and went on to spend two years producing animated spots for television and the web – winning several ADDY awards from the Fresno Advertising Federation. In 1999, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and obtained his B.A. in Cinema with an emphasis in Animation from San Francisco State University. Hagop currently works as a 3D Computer Animator at Fat Box Films in Redwood City, CA. His goal is to eventually create animated feature films that inspire hope and peace.

Edwin Khachikian, The Alarm
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Christine Khalafian, don't leave without news
Christine Khalafian is a filmmaker and curator. Some of her film titles include Naturalization Day, mark set burn, and don’t leave without news. She taught film at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and is the founder and head curator of the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival. She programmed the first North African Arab Film Festival and curated screenings for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Los Angeles Filmforum, and the Echo Park Film Center.
Khalafian is the recipient of the UWM Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, which has taken her to the Republic of Armenia where she filmed don’t leave without news. Her film mark set burn was shown at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, France as part of the Polyphonix 40 Exhibit as well as the Sundance Film Festival, New York Underground and Los Angeles Film Festival, among others. She has traveled extensively and is currently working on a series of experimental videos concentrating on language acquisition and retention.

Phillipe Vartan Khazarian, I Love the Sound of Kalachinokov, It Reminds me of Tchaikovski
Philippe Vartan Khazarian was born in France to Armenian parents. At the age of 16, he directed Brecht´s Fear and Misery in the Third Reich in the Theatre. He later made several study trips to the United States, where he started to devote himself to film more intensively. Although he graduated in politics and economics from the Sorbonne, he decided to remain in film-making. His debut was the documentary film I Love the Sound of the Kalashnikov that has been shown at a score of film festivals. He also works as a producer and is currently involved with his first full-length feature film The Scape.

Ruben Kochar, Arahet
Ruben Kochar was born in Yerevan, Armenia. He graduated from Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography, Department of Film Directing in 1974. He has directed numerous films - documentaries, shorts, musicals and features. Ruben Kochar is the winner of National Soviet Prix of Movie Art Industry; first Grand Prix of Arsenal International Film Festival in Riga, Latvia; Avant-Guard Prix in Moscow; and Grand Prix USSR World Award, diplomat of ‘Leninsky’ Medal.

In 1992 Ruben Kochar founded AITN (Armenian International Television Network) in the US and is the Producer and Art Director of “ARPI” television daily program, which has been airing in Los Angeles since 1992.

David Norian, Seeing a Sleeping Woman
David Norian was born in New York, NY in 1974. As the principal of Serious Work, he directs the creative and production process for a range of projects in film and other media. In 1997, David was Contributor in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He received his degree in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied with noted poet Thom Gunn and photographer Lewis Watts.

Irina Patkanian, Armenian Lullaby
Russian born, Irina Patkanian is an experimental filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. Patkanian’s films and videos were shown at various festivals and at the Tenement Museum in New York City. Patkanian founded a non-profit film and theater company “In Parenthesis” of which she is a president. Most recently Patkanian wrote/directed and produced a documentary My American Neighbor about the perception of America from the other side of the Atlantic and a digital short Second Egyptian, based on a novella by Marina Palei. Irina Patkanian is a Professor of Media Production at the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Tamar Salibian, Beautiful Armenians
Tamar Salibian was born in Iowa to Armenian immigrant parents from the Middle East and grew up in Los Angeles and Boston. Tamar's interest in the arts began very early in her childhood. In high school she learned about various photography techniques which she later practiced while pursuing her B.A. at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

After receiving her B.A. in Photography from Mass Art, Tamar worked in the publishing and photo industries in New York City. In 2001, she returned to Los Angeles to pursue her Master's degree in film from the California Institute of the Arts, which she received in 2004. Tamar has traveled extensively overseas and in 2002 participated in an artist's residency program sponsored by the Armenian Center for Contemporary and Experimental Art in Yerevan, Armenia. Her films have screened nationally and internationally. Tamar lives and works in Los Angeles.

Nika Shek, The Piano
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Lisa Tchakmakian, Planet Zorthian
Lisa Tchakmakian received her B.F.A. with a Film and Video emphasis from the Art Center College of Design. She went on to earn a M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. Her work examines the relationship between motion imagery and architecture.

Sevag Vrej, Planet Zorthian
Drawing from a rich cultural diversity as an American-Armenian, Sevag found the inspiration and resources needed to start his directing career in his native Los Angeles. Growing up in a family with strong ties to the old-world, Sevag challenged his community’s conventional wisdom by excelling in the arts. Seeing the value in diversity, he aspired to bridge the gap between the old and the new. Finishing his formal education at Art Center College of Design, Sevag received a B.F.A. in TV/Film Directing. While at Art Center, he directed and produced numerous short films and commercial spots. After graduating, he directed his first feature, N4, which won the Best Director Award at the AFFMA International Film Festival of 2000. He is currently co-writing a film with Vahe Berberian.

Arno Yeretzian, Planet Zorthian
Leaving Lebanon at the start of civil war, Arno’s family settled into the Armenian community of Hollywood. Arno obtained a B.A. in Film and Video from UC Santa Cruz. Incorporating multiple projections and audience participation, Arno works to break through traditional conventions. Some prevalent themes within his work are subjectivity versus objectivity, self-consciousness and criticism, and the influence of external and internal factors upon people. He has directed eight short videos and two short films and is currently starting his own production company.