Photo: Tess Steinkolk
Nora Armani
Founder, Artistic Director,
Curator
Nora Armani
Nora Armani is an award-winning actor/filmmaker with extensive International stage and screen credits. She hascurated, guest-curated and organized film events, and festivals internationally since her debut with the 1992 Tributeto Armenian Cinema at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Sherepresented the Ministry of Culture of Armenia in the Film Division from 1991-1993 organizing numerous film eventsand retrospectives on Cinema worldwide. Under her Paris-based film production company Parev Productions/SquareMango Films, she has also organized film events with The Pompidou Center in Paris, ICA (Institute of ContemporaryArt) London, The British Library, Cine Lumière London, Edinburgh Film Festival, Kerala Film Festival India, Birmingham, Inverness, Cardiff, and The Silver Lake Film Festival as guest curator. She holds an M.Sc. degree in Sociology from The London School of Economics (LSE), and a BA in Sociology and English from AUC. For more information see fullbio and filmography on her website or on IMDb. Nora is currently based in New York.
FESTIVAL TEAM
NORA ARMANI: Founding Artistic Director
LUCIE TRIPON: Panels Assistance
NATALIE GOLOGORSKY: Sponsorship/ Communication
JENNIFER FLETCHER: Film Submissions/ Filmmaker relations
JILLIE THOMAS: Script Selection/ Director Table
ARED SPENDJIAN: Art Director/ Branding
MICHAEL CLAES: PR/ Marketing/ Sponsorship
ARAM SPENDJIAN: Sponsorship/ Marketing/ Social Media
LUCY FINE: Social Media/ Festival Trailer
MICHELLE PURDY: Volunteer Coordinator
SR WEB Services: Website Update/ Media Channels
JOHN BENNETT: Marketing/ Promotion
DIRK ROBERTSON: Film Selection advice
THOMAS SIMON: Doc Film Selection advice
ARIANNA KAMINSKI: Short film Selection advice
CHING JUHL: Video/ Photo Coverage
GEORGE DAY: Video/ Photo Coverage
ARMEN SPENDJIAN: Press Assistance
LINDA SELMAN: Outreach
ELIAS GEB: General Assistance
Lucie Tripon
Panels / Producer
A French native, Lucie has been with the festival from the beginning. She writes plays and sketches. She was part of a French-Colombian women duo (Yorkville Theater) with Nadia Menco which wrote and performed plays around New York and then produced in 2015 a short film called Pink Dolphin that made it to several international festivals including the Cannes short corner. She is currently working on a play and a poetry project.
Ching Chen Juhl
Video and DIY Filmmaking
Filmmaker Videographer and Viola player par excellence.
Ared Spendjian
Art Director
Art Director and Branding manager
Armen Spendjian
Grants Writer, Marketing & Social Media Guru
A recent graduate of Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in Television and Radio, Armen is passionate about music in all its forms, specifically dance music. His mixes and compositions have been played by DJ's internationally. He is the SRFF resident DJ when not doing social media and promotion.
Natalie Gologorsky
Sponsorship communications and outreach
Jennifer Fletcher
Film Submissions and Filmmaker Relations
Lucy Fine
Social Media and Festival Trailer
Michelle Purdy
Event and Volunteer coordinator
SRFF Ambassadors
Anna Antonova
SR Ambassador in Russia
Dalia Kasparian-Semerdjian
SR Ambassador in Vienna
They helped us... we thank them!
Kechu Huang
Anna Anotonova
Anna Anotonova
Marion Avril
Araxi Mardirian
Valentina Bertozzi
Aram Spendjian
Josephine Madinier
Kyle Perry
Helene Thomas Galliere
Shirley Zheng
Alexander Vorobyev
Greg Karakashian
Clarisse Schneider
Marine Marcenac
Delphine Millot
Constance DuBois
Connie Arevalo
Martin Arushanyan
Sean Juhl
Pey Ying Chi
Laura Lemus Zapata
Maddalena Crosti
Temana Ansquer
Sarah Means
Conan Magee
Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
Aude Lambert
Yifu Qiao
Taleen Babayan