Victoria Aleksanyan

Victoria Aleksanyan (born 1987 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian film director and a co-founder of IFCA Independent Filmmakers Community of Armenia.[1] Aleksanyan has written, directed and produced a number of short films.

Education

Aleksanyan holds a master's degree in Fine Arts in Film from Columbia University, and in economic journalism from Russian-Armenian University. She received post-production fellowship from Baden-Wurttemberg Filmakademie.

Career

Aleksanyan started her career as a journalist, working in a number of cultural magazines in Armenia. After graduating from Russian-Armenian University and receiving a master's degree in journalism, Aleksanyan's professional path took an artistic direction.[2] She joined an outdoor theater project in Norway as a blogger and a performer and shortly after moved to New York City to study Film at Columbia University.

In November 2018 Aleksanyan implemented a Filmmaking Learning Lab for Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Gyumri and held a one-month intensive educational film workshop which resulted in a production of a collaborative short film, created by the Tumo students, called “Gyumri, my love.”

She also served on the Independent Film Committee for National Cinema Center,[3] reviewing and judging the film projects and scripts for the 2018 State Funding Competition.

Now, Aleksanyan is the co-founder, fundraiser, and Board Member of IFCA, Independent Filmmakers Community of Armenia.[4]

Filmography

Director

  • Man of God 2016[5]
  • Caregivers 2014[6]

Producer

  • Don't Think About It 2016[7]
  • The Professor: Tai Chi's Journey West 2016[8]
  • Risky Drinking 2016[9]
  • The Real American 2015[10]
  • The Baptizm Of Joshua Cohen 2014[11]
  • Broken Badge 2014[12]

Second Unit Director

  • Baggage 2016[13]
  • Mrs. Nebile's Wormhole 2016[14]

Art department

  • Bittersweet Sixteen 2014[15]

Awards and nominations

Best Film Nomination at Golden Apricot IFF Armenian Panorama 2014

Best Foreign Film Award at Sunset Film festival, Los-Angeles in 2015.

References

  1. ^ "Golden Apricot". www.gaiff.am. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Thick Dramatic Juice". Creative Armenia. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  3. ^ "National Cinema Center of Armenia". ncca.am. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. ^ "10 Women Ruling Armenia's Art Scene". TheArtGorgeous. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  5. ^ "Man of God". IMDb.
  6. ^ "Caregivers". IMDb.
  7. ^ "Don't Think About It". IMDb.
  8. ^ "The Professor: Tai Chi's Journey West". IMDb.
  9. ^ "Risky Drinking". IMDb.
  10. ^ "The Real American". IMDb.
  11. ^ "The Baptizm Of Joshua Cohen". IMDb.
  12. ^ "Broken Badge". IMDb.
  13. ^ "Baggage". IMDb.
  14. ^ "Mrs. Nebile's Wormhole". IMDb.
  15. ^ "Bittersweet Sixteen". IMDb.