Melanya Hamasyan
Melanya Hamasyan is a director and screenwriter from Gyumri, Armenia. She has a Master’s degree in Film Directing from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. Previous to pursuing cinema, she studied photography and public art at University of California Santa Cruz, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree.Her work spanning documentary and fiction, is often heterogeneous in style and genre, traversing the boundary that has become increasingly more intangible. Thematically, her films explore another boundary-namely how people relate and reconcile their everyday reality with that of the subconscious- engaging with the elusive yet expressive landscapes of dreams, memories and beliefs.
Filmography
Dehistoricized (short, 2015), Behind the Curtain (short, 2018), Night Odyssey (short, 2022), Late Summer (short, 2023), Conversations and Dreams (short, 2024)․