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Anna Melikian
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| Born | February 8, 1976 |
| Nationality | Armenian-Russian |
| Occupation | film and TV director/ producer |
Anna Melikian (Armenian: Աննա Մելիքյան; Russian: Анна Меликян; born February 8, 1976) is a talented Russian film and TV director and producer. She has won many awards at big international film festivals for her amazing work. In 2018, after she showed her film at the Sundance Film Festival, Variety magazine named her one of the top 10 most promising film directors!
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About Anna Melikian
Anna Melikian was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. She spent her childhood years in Yerevan, Armenia. When she was 17, she moved to Moscow, Russia.
Anna studied filmmaking at a famous film school in Moscow. It is called the All-Russian State University of Cinematography. She even won a special award called the St. Anna prize for her film Poste restante in 2000.
In the 1990s, before becoming a well-known film director, Anna worked in television. She directed different TV shows. She also wrote ideas for commercials and other TV projects.
After finishing film school, she received support from a Russian organization called GosKino. This helped her make many documentary films and TV movies.
In 2008, Anna's film Mermaid (made in 2007) won an award at the famous Berlin International Film Festival. Later, in 2014, her movie Star earned her the Best Director award at the Kinotavr film festival.
Her 2015 film About Love also won big. It received the Main Prize and the Film Distributors Jury Prize at the Kinotavr festival. It also won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Feature Film.
Since 2005, all of Anna's films are made under her own company. It is called Magnum.
Awards Anna Melikian Has Won
Anna Melikian has received many awards for her films:
- Berlin International Film Festival, 2008: FIPRESCI Prize for Rusalka (2007)
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2001: Special Jury Award for Poste restante (2000)
- Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, 2008: Feature Film award for Rusalka (2007)
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2008: Independent Camera Award for Rusalka (2007)
- Melbourne International Film Festival, 2001: City of Melbourne Award for Best Short Experimental film Poste restante (2000)
- Sofia International Film Festival, 2008: Grand Prix for Rusalka (2007)
- Sundance Film Festival, 2008: Directing Award, World Cinema - Dramatic for Rusalka (2007)
- Kinotavr, 2014: Directing Award for Star (2014)
- The Golden Unicorn Awards, 2016: Best short film "8"
- The Golden Eagle Award, 2016: Best movie, About love (2015)
Films by Anna Melikian
Anna Melikian has worked on many films as a director, producer, and writer.
As a Director
- Fairy (Фея, Feya) 2020
- Tenderness (Нежность) 2020
- The Three (Трое) 2020
- About Love (Про любовь, Pro lyubov') 2015
- Star (Звезда, Zvezda) 2014
- Mermaid (Русалка, Rusalka) 2007
- Mars (Марс) 2004
- Poste restante (До Востребования) 2000
As a Producer
- The Ghost (2008)
- Bride at any Cost (2009)
- Semeyka Ady (2007) (co-producer)
As a Writer
- Mermaid 2007
- Mars 2004
