Inna Sahakyan

Inna Sahakyan is a documentary director producer and scriptwriter born and raised in Yerevan Armenia Innas work focuses on uncovering untold stories on the nature of humanity via creative and intimate filmmaking Her featurelength debut as a director The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia 2010 codirected with Arman Yeritsyan told the story of two of Armenias most celebrated tightrope dancers and was awarded the Best Armenian Film Award at the Golden Apricot IFF One of Innas recent documentaries an ArmeniaNetherlands coproduction Mel 2021 codirected with Paul Cohen follows the story of the once beloved female weightlifting champion whose reputation was tarnished when his identity as a transgender male became public knowledge The film was awarded a special mention at the Thessaloniki IDFF in 2022 In 2022 Inna completed the featurelength animated narrative documentary Auroras Sunrise A monumental sevenyear project made in coproduction with Germany and Lithuania it tells the true story of how a fourteenyearold girl escaped the slaughter of the Armenian genocide and embarked upon an odyssey that took her to the heights of Hollywood stardom