ANUSH VARDANYAN

Anush Vardanyan is a fiction writer, screenwriter and film director. She has graduated from Saint Petersburg State University of Film and Television in 1999 and has taken a screenwriting course at New York Film Academy in 2011. She has a long filmography of around 20 films and television projects and 2 published novels – Wax (2014) and My Father is a Shoemaker and Don Corleone (2014). Her novel Paper Touches is finished and is being negotiated for publishing. As a screenwriter she is known for feature films Street-racers (2008), Backward Movement (2010), Vasilisa (2013), 72 hours (2015). In 2010 was awarded with respectable Russian Awards in cinematography Kinotavt for the best script for the feature film Backward Movement. Since 2022, Anush has been doing a research about the “father” of Armenian film industry, Daniel Dznuni and as a result her book A Story of One Denunciation will be published in 2024. She is now working on a new novel.