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Nora Armani is an award-winning actor/filmmaker with extensive International stage and screen credits in many languages. She has curated and organized film events, and guest-curated film festivals internationally since her debut with the 1992 Tribute to Armenian Cinema at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She represented the Ministry of Culture of Armenia in the Film Division from 1991-1993 organizing numerous film events and retrospectives on Cinema worldwide.  Under her Paris-based film production company Parev Productions/ Square Mango Films, she has also organized film events with The Pompidou Center in Paris, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) 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 has produced films that have screened at International film festival official selections such as Cannes, Rotterdam and Berlin. She often presents papers at conferences such as Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) at Harvard University and Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and LSE Media Studies, on Sergei Paradjanov, Cultural Identity in Cinema, and Socially Relevant films and their importance is promoting positive social change. 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 full bio and filmography on her website or on IMDb.  

Nora is currently based in New York after many years in Los Angeles and Paris.

Nora Armani

Founding Artistic Director - Festival Curator

THE FESTIVAL TEAM

NORA ARMANI: Founding Artistic Director

LUCIE TRIPON: Panels/ Production

KECHU HUANG: Film Submissions & Filmmaker relations

MICHAEL CLAES: PR/ Marketing/ Sponsorship

JOHN BENNETT: Marketing/ Promotion

SYLVIA MEAD: Media Sponsorships/ Event and Volunteer coordinator

JILLIE THOMAS: Script Selection/ Table Readings Director

ARED SPENDJIAN: Art Director/ Branding

ALICE YEUNG: Social Media & Video Programs

MINSOO LEE: PR/ Outreach Research

YITIAN CHI:Website Update and Media Channels

ENZO FLORES: Sponsorship and Communication

CHING JUHL: Video and Photo Coverage

CONNIE AREVALO: Video Coverage

ARMEN SPENDJIAN: Video Assistance

CRAIG LOWY: Festival Trailer Editor

LINDA SELMAN: Outreach