Vahram Mkhitaryan
was born in 1977 in Armenia. He is director and photographer. In 2001, Vahram Mkhitaryan graduated from Armenian State Pedagogical University, Culture Faculty, Department of Feature Films Directing (Dmitry Kesayants’ studio). After that he was engaged in production of Public Service Announsments as director, cinematographer and scriptwriter. In 2005 he came to Poland as a scholar of The Lane Kirkland Program of Polish-American Freedom Foundation and Polish-American Fulbright Commission. He worked as assistant at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In 2009 and 2011 received scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture “Gaude Polonia”. He graduated from Wajda School’s programmes - “Development Lab” for feature films and “DokPro” for documentary films. In 2014 he finished his first independent documentary film “Shepherd`s Song” and short debut film “Milky Brother”. Both films are first Polish-Armenian co-productions.
THE SHEPHERD'S SONG