Aren Malakyan

Aren Malakyan was born in 1991 in Vanadzor, Armenia. In 2015 he graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography, Faculty of Feature Films. During his years of study he participated in an international workshop organized by Lodz Film Academy in Yerevan. It was during the workshop “World: From Dusk till Dawn” that Aren shot his first short documentary Grandma Grandpa (2013). His graduation film Girl On The Moon (2014) received the prize of the President of Republic of Armenia in 2015, as well as several prizes at international film festivals, including Bastau IFF, New Wave IFF and Fresco IFF. It won the Best Film award at Web Apricot Yerevan Festival. Since then Aren has directed the Mini-TV Series Special Department (2015) for the Armenian Public Television, and the short film Snow (2016) that had its international premiere at Shanghai International Film Festival.