"I don’t know why I told this story
BIANCA BAGATOURIAN
Bianca is a graduate of the Brooklyn College Playwriting MFA Program, under lifetime Obie winning playwright, Mac Wellman. She is an experimental playwright who likes to stretch the boundaries of theater and whose works revolve around human rights themes. Her play based on the works of noted historian Howard Zinn, The Time of Our Lies, was co-produced by Viggo Mortensen, with support from Eddie Vedder, Tim Robbins, Tom Shadyac and the Zinn Estate at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2014. It was nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. It is scheduled for a world premiere in London, 2019.
Her play about the 1976 revolution in Iran focused on the injustice to the children of a revolution and had readings at both the Ohio Theater in NYC and The Pasadena Playhouse in Ca. In 2016, a reading of her new work will be heard at The Lark Theatre in NYC as part of the Middle Eastern Convening of Playwrights. She is currently working on a play about the Armenian genocide based on 800 hours of survivor stories with permission from the Armenian Library and Museum of America.
Bianca is the president of the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, a non-profit organization she founded in 2005 which administers the $10,000 Saroyan/Paul Human Rights Playwriting Award. www.armeniandrama.org
Bianca’s first children’s book, Draculiza, was published in 2015.
Bianca also works in film and produced a feature film in 2015 and also presented 2 films at the Los Angeles Film Festival, “Autumn” and “Army of Crime”. She also ran a film festival at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for 3 consecutive years. She's now writing for television and is completing a genocide documentary being filmed in Africa.
www.biancabagatourian.com
Her play about the 1976 revolution in Iran focused on the injustice to the children of a revolution and had readings at both the Ohio Theater in NYC and The Pasadena Playhouse in Ca. In 2016, a reading of her new work will be heard at The Lark Theatre in NYC as part of the Middle Eastern Convening of Playwrights. She is currently working on a play about the Armenian genocide based on 800 hours of survivor stories with permission from the Armenian Library and Museum of America.
Bianca is the president of the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, a non-profit organization she founded in 2005 which administers the $10,000 Saroyan/Paul Human Rights Playwriting Award. www.armeniandrama.org
Bianca’s first children’s book, Draculiza, was published in 2015.
Bianca also works in film and produced a feature film in 2015 and also presented 2 films at the Los Angeles Film Festival, “Autumn” and “Army of Crime”. She also ran a film festival at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for 3 consecutive years. She's now writing for television and is completing a genocide documentary being filmed in Africa.
www.biancabagatourian.com
STEVEN BAGATOURIAN
At the age of 21, Steven's screenplay, WEASEL, won the Grand Prize in the international Cinestory Screenwriting Awards competition. Since then, Steven has sold scripts to many companies, including Warner Bros, New Crime Productions, Mandalay Entertainment, Participant Media, Echo Lake Productions, and 20th Century Fox.
AMERICAN GUN (2005), co-written by Steven, was released in theaters by IFC Films; it starred Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, and Donald Sutherland; the film was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress).
Steven was the original writer for the Tupac biopic, ALL EYEZ ON ME, having written the first six drafts of the film for Morgan Creek Productions. He has also enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Alcon Entertainment (THE BLINDSIDE, BLADERUNNER 2049), on multiple projects, the most recent being an upcoming biopic of legendary Harlem street basketball icon, Pee Wee Kirkland.
Over the years, Steven has worked on a wide variety of film and theater projects with world class professionals, ranging from Denzel Washington to Dr. Dre. He lives in Los Angeles.
AMERICAN GUN (2005), co-written by Steven, was released in theaters by IFC Films; it starred Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, and Donald Sutherland; the film was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress).
Steven was the original writer for the Tupac biopic, ALL EYEZ ON ME, having written the first six drafts of the film for Morgan Creek Productions. He has also enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Alcon Entertainment (THE BLINDSIDE, BLADERUNNER 2049), on multiple projects, the most recent being an upcoming biopic of legendary Harlem street basketball icon, Pee Wee Kirkland.
Over the years, Steven has worked on a wide variety of film and theater projects with world class professionals, ranging from Denzel Washington to Dr. Dre. He lives in Los Angeles.
JEFF KALOUSDIAN
Prior to making the leap into filmmaking, Jeff worked in international development, heading projects in many of the world's hot spots for organizations such as UN Refugee Agency, Save the Children, and the Danish Refugee Council among others.
In 2009, he took his first step into the film industry producing Braden King's feature film, Here, starring Ben Foster. Here went on to be screened in over 25 festivals worldwide, including Sundance and Berlin.
In 2011, Jeff won the Paul Award for his feature film script The Florist, a story about love and loss in a frozen conflict in the former Soviet Union. He also produced Territoria, which won the best screenplay award at the Cannes International Film Festival Atelier in 2014.
As a writer/producer, he currently has several films in development, including Mariposa which has been invited to many international festival markets including When East Meets West in Trieste, Italy, Moscow International Film Festival and the Baja International Co-production Market in Mexico.
In 2017, he made his directorial premier with the documentary film Spiral, about a renowned Soviet ballet dancer/teacher.
In 2009, he took his first step into the film industry producing Braden King's feature film, Here, starring Ben Foster. Here went on to be screened in over 25 festivals worldwide, including Sundance and Berlin.
In 2011, Jeff won the Paul Award for his feature film script The Florist, a story about love and loss in a frozen conflict in the former Soviet Union. He also produced Territoria, which won the best screenplay award at the Cannes International Film Festival Atelier in 2014.
As a writer/producer, he currently has several films in development, including Mariposa which has been invited to many international festival markets including When East Meets West in Trieste, Italy, Moscow International Film Festival and the Baja International Co-production Market in Mexico.
In 2017, he made his directorial premier with the documentary film Spiral, about a renowned Soviet ballet dancer/teacher.
