Anna Melikian Explained

Anna Melikian
Birth Date:8 February 1976
Birth Place:Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Union
Occupation:film and TV director/ producer
Nationality:Armenian-Russian

Anna Melikian (Armenian: Աննա Մելիքյան; Russian: Анна Меликян; born February 8, 1976) is a Russian film and TV director/ producer whose work has been recognized with various awards at major international film festivals.[1] After her participation at 2018 Sundance Film Festival she was listed in the TOP 10 of most perspective film directors by Variety magazine.[2]

Biography

Anna Melikian was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. She spent her childhood in Yerevan, Armenia. At the age of 17 she moved to Moscow, Russia.[3]

Melikian studied at the All-Russian State University of Cinematography film school in Moscow (classes of Prof. Sergey Solovyov and Valery Rubinchik), where she was awarded the St. Anna prize for Poste restante (2000).

In the 1990s, she worked for a while on television as a director of several programs and as a writer of video commercials and TV projects.[4]

After the graduation she was granted by GosKino Russian organization, made various documental and TV films. In 2008 Melikian's Mermaid (2007) was awarded by the Berlin International Film Festival Prize. In 2014, her Star brought her Best Director award at Kinotavr.[5]

Her 2015 film About Love brought her the Main Prize and the Prize of Film Distributors Jury at the Kinotavr film festival as well as the Golden Eagle Awards as the Best Feature Film.[6] [7]

Since 2005 all her films are shot under her private brand – the cinema company Magnum.[8]

Awards

Filmography

Director

Producer

Writer

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2016. US. 978-1442268425. 481–482.
  2. Web site: Anna Melikian. Lenta.Ru. 2007. 2008-12-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20110607094808/http://www.lenta.ru/topics/nika2008/melikyan.htm. 2011-06-07. dead.
  3. Web site: Биография Анны Меликян — статьи и новости на 7days.ru. 2021-11-17. 7Дней.ру. ru.
  4. Web site: Анна Меликян. 2021-11-17. www.film.ru.
  5. Web site: В прокат вышел хит «Кинотавра» - «Звезда» Анны Меликян. ru. Kinotavr hit 'Star' by Anna Melikyan released. 2014-12-05. Vedomosti. 2024-07-31.
  6. Web site: 26th Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival. Kinotavr. 2017-04-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20170813130932/http://www.kinotavr.ru/en/2015/winners-26. 2017-08-13.
  7. Web site: Лауреаты премии "Золотой Орел" за 2015 год. Golden Eagle Award.
  8. Web site: Анна Меликян. 2021-11-17. www.film.ru.