Sara Nalbandyan

Sara Nalbandyan

Sara Nalbandyan is a film critic, culturologist, scriptwriter, and film director. She studied Russian Language and Literature at Yerevan State University. In 2004, she became a Candidate of Arts. In addition to this, in 2010, she received a Master’s degree in Cinema, Television, and Multimedia Production from the University of Bologna in Italy.

In 2001 – 2008 Sara was a lecturer at the Russian-Armenian University of Yerevan. Since 2010 Sara is a Board Member of Armenia’s National Theatre Art Association.  Since 2011 she is an Assistant Professor at Yerevan State University (Chair of Culturology, Faculty of History). Also from 2010 to 2011, Sara was the Head of the Literary Department of Yerevan’s State Theater “Hamazgayin”. Since 2019, she has been the Artistic and Perspective Development vice-rector of the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema and a scriptwriter, film supervisor, and director of Orderfilm Production.

Sara has been involved in many artistic endeavors. In 2010 she was the artistic coordinator of the “Rehabilitation of the Present” Festival of Contemporary Drama. Notably, in 2010, 2011, and 2012 she was a programmer and organizer of the Italian Cinema Week in Yerevan, which was realized with the support of the Embassy of Italy.