Tamara Stepanyan Leads Masterclass at Armenian Film Society
On Saturday, October 25, director and producer Tamara Stepanyan led a masterclass at the Armenian Film Society (AFS), where she shared her creative journey and explored her filmmaking process using her film “My Armenian Phantoms” as a case study.
Stepanyan, who now lives in Paris, was born in Yerevan and moved to Lebanon when she was 12. She studied film, television and communication arts at the American University of Beirut and started making documentaries in 2010.
Some of her notable works include “The Ganants Gyughe” (Village of Women) in 2019 and “My Armenian Phantoms”, a feature documentary that premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The film is poetic, a dialogue among her, her actor-father, and Soviet Armenian cinema.
Her film “My Armenian Phantoms” is a feature documentary that premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
Author's summary: Filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan shares her creative journey.