- Vardan Hovhannisyan was a freelance camera operator and covering the hot regions and ethnic conflicts related to the post-Soviet transition for the international news from 1988 to 1991. In 1993 he established Bars Media Documentary Film Studio, one of the first independent film companies in Armenia.
His film "A Story of People in War and Peace" (an International Co-production with BBC, ITVS/PBS, ARTE, WDR, YLE) is a powerful, personal understanding of the human costs of war. The film has won over 20 other awards including the FIPRESCI prize, the Best Documentary Filmmaker Award at Tribeca Film Festival. In 2010, Vardan produced the documentary "The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia", an international co-production with NHK, ITVS, YLE, SVT and TVP.
The most successful production of Bars Media is the animated documentary "Aurora's Sunrise" completed in 2022. This Armenian-German-Lithuanian production won numerous awards at international film festivals, including the prestigious Best Animated Film award at the 2022 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. "Aurora's Sunrise" was also Armenia's official submission for the 95th Academy Awards.
- IMDb mini biography by: Vardan Hovhannisyan
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