Anna Melikjan
Anna Melikjan (also: Melikian , Melikyan , armenisch Աննա Մելիկյան , Russian Анна Гагиковна Меликян ; born February 8, 1976 in Baku , Azerbaijani SSR ) is an Armenian-Russian film director and film producer . In 2011, Variety magazine ranked her among the ten most promising directors in the world.
Career
Anna Melikjan grew up in Yerevan . She has lived in Moscow since 1994 , where she began studying in 1997 at the Gerasimov Institute for Cinematography in the class of Russian director Sergei Solovyov . During her studies she received an award from the university for her 24-minute short film Poste restante . After graduating in 2002, Melikjan worked for television and made documentaries , among other things . In 2004 she made her feature film debut with Mars . In 2008 she won a prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for her film Alisa, the Meermgirl (original title: Rusalka ). At the Sundance Film Festival she was awarded the prize for best director in the World Cinema / Dramatic category for the same film .
Filmography
- 2000: Poste restante
- 2004: Mars
- 2007: Rusalka ( Alisa, the mermaid )
- 2014: Zvezda ( Star )
- 2015: About love (Pro Ljubov, Про любовь )
Web links
- Anna Melikyan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.russische-filmwoche.de/2011/gaeste.html
- ↑ a b http://www.trigon-film.org/de/directors/Anna_Melikian
- ↑ http://planet-interview.de/anna-melikian-12022008.html
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SURNAME | Melikjan, Anna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Меликян, Анна (Russian); Մելիկյան, Աննա (Armenian); Melikian, Anna (alternative transcription); Melikyan, Anna (English transcription) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian film director and film producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Baku , Azerbaijani SSR |