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Ruben Gevorgyants
Born November 30, 1945 in the family of Armenian film director Stephan Kevorkov. In 1962-1964 he was a movie mechanics assistant in Hayfilm studio and a directors assistant in Armenian television. In 1964 he was admitted to the Yerevan Artistic-Theatrical Institute, Faculty of Directing, which he graduated in 1969. In 1969-1971 he worked in the Yerevan Studio of Telefilms. Since 1971 he worked in the Armenian chronicle–documentary film studio (called “Hayk” studio today). In 1968 he made his first documentary Graduates of Nersessian School, in 1977 – his first feature short The Way Back and in 1983 – his first feature length film Fire Sparkling in the Night.
Since 1982 he was the artistic director of “Hayfilm’s” Creative Association of Documentary Films and since 1989 he is the chairman of “Hayk” film studio, which was founded on the basis of that Association. In 2004 and 2009 Gevorgyants was elected President of the Armenian Union of Cinematographers. He is a lecturer in Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography and a People’s Artist of Armenia. Gevorgyants’ films have won many awards in many international film festivals.