Anna Melikyan

Directing·Feb 8, 1976·Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR (Azerbaijan)

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Anna Gagikovna Melikyan (Armenian: Աննա Գագիկի Մելիքյան; Russian: А́нна Гаги́ковна Меликя́н; born 8 February 1976, Baku) is an Azerbaijan-Armenian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and TV director/producer, who works in Russia. She is best known for the film "Mermaid" (2008), which received many international and national awards. After her participation at Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, she was listed in the TOP-10 of most perspective film directors by "Variety" magazine. Anna Melikyan was born in Baku (USSR, now Azerbaijan) and grew up in Yerevan (USSR, now Armenia). At the age of 17, she moved to Moscow. In the mid-1990s, Anna Melikyan was a television director, wrote scripts for commercials and television programs, worked in the team of Yevgeny Ginzburg, and participated in the creation of New Year's show programs. In 1998 — he directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Moscow International film festival. In 2002, she graduated from the directing department of "VGIK" (workshop of S. Solovyov, V. Rubinchik). The first feature film was "Mars", which premiered at the 2004 Berlin film festival. The second feature film "Mermaid" won the "Best Director Award" at the Sundance Film Festival, the FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and was a Russian Oscar Nominee in 2008. For the film "Star" in 2014, Anna received the prize for "Best Director" at the "Kinotavr" Festival. In 2015, for the film-almanac "About Love", she received two main prizes at "Kinotavr" - the "Grand Prix" for the best film and the "Jury Prize" of film distributors. American magazine "Variety" included Melikyan in the top ten most promising Directors in the world. Anna created the "Magnum Film" company, which is engaged in the production of films and television series, as well as the search and production of new talents.

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Anna's Feelings2023 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
DDiana2023 · Director	Director
The Three2020 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
Fairy2020 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Tenderness2018 · Director of Photography, Screenplay, Director	Director of Photography, Screenplay, Director
I Come To You2017 · Actor, Screenplay, Director	Actor, Screenplay, Director
About Love. Adults Only2017 · Writer, Director, Producer	Writer, Director, Producer
Yana+Yanko2017 · Producer	Producer
About Love2015 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
82015 · Screenplay, Director, Producer	Screenplay, Director, Producer
A Mood Like That, Bach’s Adagio and Several Episodes from the Life of the girl Lena2014 · Screenplay, Director, Producer	Screenplay, Director, Producer
Star2014 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
About Love 22013 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
About Love2011 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Brides in Exchange2011 · Producer	Producer
Rita2010 · Producer	Producer
Nevesta Lyuboy Tsenoy2009 · Producer	Producer
Love Journal2009 · Producer	Producer
The Ghost2008 · Producer	Producer
Ada's Family2007 · Producer	Producer
Mermaid2007 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Mars2004 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Curse of the Onassis clan2004 · Director	Director
Double Bass2002 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
To Be Called For2000 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
LLet’s Fly1999 · Screenplay, Producer, Director	Screenplay, Producer, Director
AAndante1998 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay