Vardan Hovhannisyan is an
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n director and producer.
From 1988 to 1991, Vardan Hovhannisyan was a freelance cameraman and covered the hot regions and ethnic conflicts related to the post-Soviet transition for the international news. He was twice captured as a prisoner of war during the
First Nagorno-Karabakh War. In 1993 he established
Bars Media Documentary Film Studio, one of the first independent film companies in
Armenia
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, which specializes in making documentaries about human stories, culture, history and other social issues. He has also been the executive producer of documentaries for organizations such as the United Nations, USAID, OSCE, the British Council and OXFAM.
His film ''
A Story of People in War and Peace'' has won over 20 awards including the
FIPRESCI prize, the Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award at
Tribeca Film Festival
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(New York, 2007), the Audience Award at
Trieste Film Festival
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(Italy 2007), the Special Mention Award at the
ZagrebDox Film Festival (Croatia 2007) and
Docaviv Film Festival (Israel 2007), and was nominated for the Joris Ivens award at
IDFA (The Netherlands, 2006). The film has been shown on the
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, Documentary Channel US and will be shown on PBS.
Recently, he produced the documentary ''
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Vardan is also developing documentary films in Africa, Russia, Afghanistan, and at the North and South Poles. He is currently planning to start the production of his next film Hot Archeology in Afghanistan.
Vardan is a certified sports-plane pilot and first-class parachutist, experienced in aerial film shooting. He is a member of the EDN and the IDA.