Ovsanna Shekoyan
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Ovsanna Shekoyan is an artist and filmmaker based in Armenia. She holds an MA
in Painting from the Yerevan State Academy of Arts and has been active in the
field of contemporary art for many years. She is a recipient of the RA President's
Youth award in Performing Arts, Cinema, and Painting (2010). Her short film
project TWIST won the development award at the goEast film festival in the
framework of the East-West Talent Lab (2016) and participated in the Berlinale
Short Film Station Project Lab (2017). She is an alumna of the Talents Sarajevo
(2016) and Berlinale Talents (2017). Ovsanna's debut short film TWIST (2020) had
its world premiere at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival in the short film competition
program. In 2021, she made her second short film HANDSTAND, which had its
international premiere at the IndieLisboa International Film Festival. HANDSTAND
won a Special Award at the Golden Apricot International Film Festival and the 2nd
prize for the best short film at the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus.