Anna Melikyan

Anna Gagikovna Melikyan Armenian ???? ?????? ???????? Russian ???? ????????? ??????? born 8 February 1976 Baku is an AzerbaijanArmenian filmmaker screenwriter producer and TV directorproducer who works in Russia She is best known for the film Mermaid 2008 which received many international and national awards After her participation at Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals she was listed in the TOP10 of most perspective film directors by Variety magazine Anna Melikyan was born in Baku USSR now Azerbaijan and grew up in Yerevan USSR now Armenia At the age of 17 she moved to Moscow In the mid1990s Anna Melikyan was a television director wrote scripts for commercials and television programs worked in the team of Yevgeny Ginzburg and participated in the creation of New Years show programs In 1998 he directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Moscow International film festival In 2002 she graduated from the directing department of VGIK workshop of S Solovyov V Rubinchik The first feature film was Mars which premiered at the 2004 Berlin film festival The second feature film Mermaid won the Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival the FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival and was a Russian Oscar Nominee in 2008 For the film Star in 2014 Anna received the prize for Best Director at the Kinotavr Festival In 2015 for the filmalmanac About Love she received two main prizes at Kinotavr the Grand Prix for the best film and the Jury Prize of film distributors American magazine Variety included Melikyan in the top ten most promising Directors in the world Anna created the Magnum Film company which is engaged in the production of films and television series as well as the search and production of new talents