The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia

Vardan Hovhannisyan began his documentary career in Yerevan Documentary Film Studio. From 1986 to 1988, Vardan was a freelance cameraman and covered the hot regions and ethnic conflicts which erupted during the post-Soviet transition for international news agencies including: CBS News, Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC), World Monitor (Christian Science Monitor Television), WTN (World Television News), Vesti (Russian TV News Program), and ARD (German TV Station). Since then he has produced documentary films for BBC, ARTE, YLE, WDR and other broadcasters. In 1993, he founded Bars Media Documentary Film Studio.

Inna Sahakyan was born in 1977 in Yerevan, Armenia. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with an master’s degree in Fine Arts Criticism. Since 2002 she has worked in several design and production companies as a cultural advisor, script writer, and project coordinator. Since 2002 she has been working as a producer, director, and project manager in Bars Media. Inna is also currently working towards her Ph. D. in History and Theory of Art.