Queernissage Profiles by MIASEEN
Produced in 2022, Queernissage Profiles is a mini-doc series featuring Armenian LGBTQ+ artists and the stories behind their craft. Watch the series below! The series is made by MIASEEN who is a…
The Feels by Jenée LaMarque
Released in 2017, The Feels by Jenée LaMarque is a Rom-Com featuring the character Kárin, a queer Armenian woman and musical artist. The character is played by Syrian-Armenian musician and actress Káryyn Tatoyan. The…
Parev Mama by Natalie Shirinian
Scheduled to be released in 2021, Parev Mama (Hello Mother) is a short film written and directed by Natalie Shirinian. Shirinian has been featured in Vogue, InStyle’s February 2020 Badass Women Issue, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times. Her debut film was Interior Motives
Delicious Fruit directed by Melissa Boyajian
Released in 2010, Delicious Fruit by Melissa Boyajian is a short experimental film utilizing recontextualized footage of Sergei Parajanov’s archetypal film The Color of Pomegranates.
Melissa Boyajian is an actor and director, known for Sooner, Oklahoma (2009)
Adamantine directed by Art Arutyunyan
Released in 2017, Adamantine is a short film by Art Arutyunyan, a gay Armenian writer, director, animator and producer.
Arutyunyan was born and raised in Uzbekistan, and is now based in Los Angeles. He trained as a fashion designer, before transitioning to film production.
Dear Armen (2015 short film)
Released in 2015, Dear Armen is a short film by Kamee Abrahamian and lee williams boudakian.
Kamee Abrahamian was born into an Armenian family displaced from the SWANA (Southwest Asian, North African) region, and grew up in an immigrant suburb of Toronto.
The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov
Released in 1969, The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov is his best known masterpiece. Commenting on the film, Martin Scorsese said, “I didn’t know any more about Sayat-Nova at the end of the picture than I knew at the beginning, but instead what Parajanov did was he opened a door into a timeless cinematic experience.”
Listen to Me by Pink Armenia
Released in 2016, Listen to Me, produced by Pink Armenia, is the first [*] documentary film about Queer Armenians living in Armenia.
The film features 10 Queer folx who took on the risk to discuss their lives in Armenia on-camera.
Tangerine directed by Sean Baker
Released in 2015, Tangerine by writer/director Sean Baker was a historic first in a number of regards, including the fact that the film featured two transgender women as the lead characters, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor.
Pride & Joy by Kathleen Archambeau
Published in 2017, Pride & Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons, and Everyday Heroes by Kathleen Archambeau is a celebration of queer lives as she writes biographies, profiles, and stories of queer folx.
One of the artists she writes about is Thea Farhadian