What happens when you plan to shoot an exclusive documentary about your decade long family camping memories, but somehow end up shivering with high temperature in […]
. The greatness of Maradona as a mythical personality is not limited to his brilliance on the pitch, which by all means, will remain unparalleled in the history of football, but in his impulsiveness and righteousness when facing moral dilemmas...
I am fusing daily work with news as a medium to demand #FreeArmenianPOWs & condemn #AzeriWarCrimes It’s a surreal state, living and working in Los Angeles […]
Մեր ընկեր Արբի Բաղդանյանի հիշատակին: Ինչ որ իրականությունն է պիտի ասել՝ Արբին, ում կորուստը այժմ ողբում ենք, եթե նույնիսկ ապրեր 100 տարի, երևի երբևե իր […]
A tribute to Abbas who thought us to look around. The world is filled with people staring at glaring screens, the screens of their phones, computers […]
Our April 25 awarness video is now on Facebook Videos! I’m happy to announce that after several sleepless nights and heavy work our tribute to Armenian […]
My second Cuba project is slowly coming to fruition! My work in progress participatory documentary with the working title of “Turn Left” is in the editing […]
Filmmaking with Abbas Kiarostami The filmmaker magazine recently published an article about our filmmaking experience in Cuba with Abbas Kiarostami. Written by my talented friend Cameron […]
So finally it’s official! I’m glad to announce that I will be taking part in 2016 filming workshop supervised by Abbas Kiarostami in Cuba. The thrill […]
Bahman Ghobadi’s recent feature film “The Rhino Season” was screened at the UCLA celebration of Iranian cinema recently and I finally had the chance to watch […]
Jia Zheng-ke’s recent movie; “A Touch Of Sin” could be considered the third segment of his social criticism of the modern China in the series that came […]
So finally the day arrived for us to screen our final thesis films and enjoy a self imposed and imaginary public humiliation after every single line that […]
The concept of being Armenian is definitely a complex subject to write about. A very brief research over the internet can confirm that the tragedy of […]
Before the opening night of the UCLA film festival we had the opportunity to have Ana Lily Amirpour screening her recent Sundance sensation ” A girl walks home alone […]
Ok this is more going to sound like bragging and self glorification, but I guess that’s what all small budget filmmakers and independent directors do until […]
After a series of unfortunate events (Including me trying to figure out if the film is inserted correctly inside the camera while locking myself down in a […]
My UCLA FTV150 cinematography final project “8mm Ballad” which was also my first experience shooting on 16mm was finally screened at UCLA bridges theater and I’m proud […]
Soiree in Hell is an Iranian comedy thriller movie directed by my grandfather Mushegh Sarvari (AKA Sarvarian) which competed next to Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries and Vittorio De […]
Whenever watching a Hollywood mainstream film, I always wonder how does the American audience feels following a storyline similar to their own lives. It’s an envious […]