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Armenian Film Society has announced the second edition of its Armenian Women in Film and Entertainment panel, hosted in honor of International Women’s Day.
The panel, which will be held on Thursday, March 7 at LOOK Cinemas in Glendale, will bring together a group of leading Armenian women who work in the film and entertainment industries. The speakers will share their experience of what it is like to work in film and entertainment, including details on their backgrounds, their journeys to their current roles, as well as successes, failures and lessons learned along the way.
The panel will be moderated by Sona Movsesian, co-host of the popular podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, and will consist of Joanna Bush, Anna DerParseghian, Alex Hedison and Teni Karapetian.
Attendees will have an opportunity to network after the panel discussion during a social hour at LOOK Cinemas’ bar and lounge. Proceeds from ticket sales will go directly to the development of Armenian Film Society’s programs.
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Joanna Bush
Joanna Bush started her concept art career at Section Eight, the former production company of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney, illustrating on The Good German, Ocean’s 13 and The Informant!, as well as designing the opening sequences to Soderbergh’s Che: Part One and Che: Part Two. She worked closely with director Ang Lee and production designer David Gropman on Life of Pi, traveling to Taiwan to work on development, production and post-production on the film. Bush has illustrated on five feature films that have been nominated for an Academy Award for Production Design, including two that won – La La Land and Mank. In 2022, she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She most recently worked for Steven Zaillian in post-production on his upcoming Netflix series, Ripley.
Anna DerParseghian
Anna DerParseghian began her career in business management at the age of 16 and has worked in virtually every role in the industry throughout the years, slowly learning every angle of the business along her journey, until she was made co-owner/partner in 2010 and quickly became managing partner in 2015. Today, she continues to manage the boutique firm based in Sherman Oaks, which boasts some of Hollywood’s A-listers as clients. Their client list includes talent both in front of and behind the camera, various touring musicians and comedians and many high-net-worth individuals in the entertainment industry. DerParseghian is one of a handful of female managing partners in business management.
Alex Hedison
Alex Hedison is an internationally acclaimed photographer, artist, director and actor. Born in Los Angeles of Armenian descent, she has exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. Her photographic work is in public and private collections worldwide, including the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection, Barclays Capital, Participant Media and the Grunwald Collection at the Hammer Museum. Hedison’s most recent solo exhibitions include the opening of FRIEZE Seoul 2023, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, H Gallery Paris, Photo London and Paris Photo. Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Gold Circle, The Genius List, Curator, Point Contemporain and The New Yorker. Her acting career spans numerous television roles, including a pivotal character in the cultural phenomenon The L Word. A critical voice in both the artistic and LGBTQ+ communities, she directed the documentary short film Alok, featuring Alok Vaid-Menon, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. This thought-provoking documentary short explores compassion as a catalyst for social transformation and inspires viewers to embrace personal freedom beyond the binaries that divide us. The film is produced by Natalie Shirinian, Elizabeth Baudouin and Meggan Lennon and executive produced by Jodie Foster.
Teni Karapetian
Teni Karapetian is director of Film Publicity at Netflix. She got her start in public relations doing corporate communications for Artistdirect. She left music to get into television publicity at Sony Pictures Television, eventually transitioning into film in 2001. She spent a cumulative 14 years working for Sony Pictures with a nearly two-year stint at The Weinstein Company in between her two tenures at Sony. During her time at Sony, Karapetian was part of two campaigns that won the Publicist Guild Award – The Social Network and The Interview. After leaving Sony, she went on to run National Publicity at STX Films, where she worked on over 25 campaigns starting with The Gift, the studio’s first feature film release, the Bad Moms franchise and The Upside. Karapetian took on her role as director of Film Publicity at Netflix in 2019 and has worked on hits such as The Mother starring Jennifer Lopez, Day Shift starring Jamie Foxx and most recently Lift starring Kevin Hart. Karapetian is a graduate of UCLA where she earned her bachelor of arts in American Literature and Culture. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
Sona Movsesian (Moderator)
Sona Movsesian is an executive assistant, author and media personality who has been the personal assistant of late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien since 2009. Movsesian has become a fan favorite and a regular feature on all things Team Coco. She currently co-hosts Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. In 2022, she released a humorous how-to book titled The World’s Worst Assistant, which became a New York Times best seller.
About Armenian Film SocietyFounded in 2015 by husband and wife Armen and Mary Karaoghlanian, Armenian Film Society is the leading nonprofit organization that champions Armenian films and unites Armenian filmmakers. Armenian Film Society operates the Armenian Film Festival in Glendale, California, which launched in 2023 on the occasion of the centennial of Armenian cinema. The inaugural film festival drew in over 1,500 attendees and held the premiere of Michael Goorjian’s Amerikatsi, which became the first-ever Armenian film to be shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.
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The Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of Alikhanyan National Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) has announced an open student competition for proposed projects in High-Energy Physics in the Atmosphere (HEPA). The selected project will be performed at CRD’s high-altitude research facilities on Mt. Aragats. This is a unique location for HEPA research. Each year, in May-June and September-October, tens of intense TGEs (Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements) shower the particle detectors with millions of electrons and gamma rays, and occasionally with neutrons.
An overhead view of Kari Lij (Stone Lake) near the summit of Mt. Aragats. CRD’s Aragats Research Station, at the bottom-right of the image, is the world’s largest installation of ground-based cosmic ray monitors at 10,500 ft above sea level.
Proposals for atmospheric and environmental physics experiments will be considered. The competing proposals will illustrate how participants intend to use CRD’s unique facilities. A newly equipped 9 m2 laboratory will be provided to the winning projects for research of atmospheric physics phenomena, including registration of the TGEs, air glows, electric fields, lightning occurrences, natural gamma radiation and other environmental phenomena. Researchers/students can utilize CRD’s existing infrastructure, including particle detectors, photometers, high-speed cameras, data-acquisition (DAQ) electronics, online computers, spectrometers and geomagnetic and near-surface electric field monitors. Most importantly, the winning team will have an opportunity to discuss and tune their project ideas with CRD scientists and researchers before installing their facilities on Mt. Aragats.
Experimental tower equipped to measure particles from atmospheric events and cosmic rays, electric field strength and multiple meteorological parameters, as well as the presence and location of thunderstorms. Also, this station is equipped to photograph atmospheric events.
Proposals will be judged on motivation and creativity. The students will be invited to spend one week at the Aragats research station in June-August to conduct their experiment, with a unique opportunity to join the CRD team. The results will be summarized in a report and presented at upcoming international TEPA (Thunderstorm and Elementary Particle Acceleration) conferences. Students will also be invited to attend a planned summer school.
Proposals should be in free format, including all proposed facility specifications, and provided to CRD by March 1, 2024. All correspondence should go to Zara Asaturyan, zaraasaturyan.87@gmail.com. The winners will be announced on March 15, 2024.
This competition is open to students of all grades (graduate, undergraduate and high school).
For links to the CRD site and CRD publications, visit http://crd.yerphi.am/ and http://crd.yerphi.am/crd_publications.
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February 20 marks the anniversary of the beginning of Artsakh’s National Liberation Movement. To mark the occasion, President Samvel Shahramanyan and other the exiled leaders of Artsakh visited the Yerablur National Cemetery Tuesday.
The Artsakh Parliament held a special session at the Artsakh representation in Yerevan, with an agenda of marking the anniversary of the Liberation Movement and discussing issues related to the mass repatriation of the displaced Artsakh Armenians.
Gagik Baghunts, the acting Speaker of the Artsakh Parliament told Azatutyun.am after the session that the Artsakh leadership is taking “concrete steps” for the eventual repatriation of Artsakh Armenians.
“Our struggle will continue,” Baghunts told Azatutyun.
“The Armenians of Artsakh will not accept the idea that we have closed the page of Artsakh, and the desire to return will always stay with us. I hope that we will have significant success in that direction already in the not-so-distant future,” he added.
“We are taking concrete steps, we will continue to do everything possible so that the Artsakh Armenians return to the homeland, our historical homeland, and I hope that despite my rather old age, I will return, not my grandchildren,” Baghunts said without specifying the steps, only to say that they are ready for “cooperation with world powers” and even “contacts with the Azerbaijani authorities.”
The Deputy Speaker of the Artsakh Parliament, Vahram Balayan, echoed the sentiments of his colleague when he told reporters on Tuesday that the Artsakh chapter of history is not yet closed.
“Today we are in a disillusioned and broken state, but there is a need to use the available opportunities and strengthen Armenia. And in the context of all this, try to continue our further struggle, liberate a part of our historical homeland,” Balayan told reporters.
He also emphasized that the Artsakh issue had no correlation with the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, saying the the self-determination of the people of Artsakh, and the struggle that began in 1988, did not seek to lay claim on territory, but rather stemmed from the special status of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast during the Soviet Period.
Balayan said that the NKAO had the same status as Azerbaijan SSR did under the Soviet Union, with its own constitution and Armenian as its state language.
“Due to many factors, we could not keep, protect what we had,” said Badalyan about the current fate of Artsakh.
“In general, history is not only a lesson, but also a punishment for all those who do not take the lessons of history into account. Unfortunately, we did not take into account the lessons we learned, we could not preserve our statehood,” he added.
He called the forced exodus of Armenians from Artsakh in September, following Azerbaijan’s large-scale attack, a genocide.
“In reality, it [the attack] was a genocidal act against our people. This is an obvious fact that we must present to the world, and demonstrate that our people have the right to full return [to Artsakh], and must fight to exercise that right,” said Balayan.
“We still have a ways to go. It seems to me that we should not be deprived of existing opportunities, we should continue to work from the viewpoint of ensuring our full return,” added the deputy speaker.
YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Armenia and Azerbaijan are discussing the date and venue of an upcoming meeting of their foreign ministers, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
The leaders of the two South Caucasus states reached an agreement on that meeting during weekend talks in Munich hosted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. They said the ministers will focus on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty.
“The parties are working out [a date for the meeting,]” Ani Badalian, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service. “In case of reaching a final agreement, we will inform you further.”
It remained unclear whether the upcoming negotiations will be direct or mediated by a third party.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had been scheduled to host his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts in Washington last November. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov withdrew from the trilateral meeting in protest against what his office called pro-Armenian statements made by a senior U.S. diplomat. Washington afterwards failed to convince the Azerbaijani leadership to reschedule it.
Speaking three days before Saturday’s summit, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that Baku “doesn’t need mediators to normalize relations with Yerevan” and that the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict “should be removed from the international agenda.”
Yerevan has insisted on continued Western mediation. In the run-up to the Munich talks, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Baku of walking away from understandings reached during his earlier encounters with Aliyev organized by the European Union. But he said on Sunday that both sides are “committed to those understandings” relating to the basic parameters of the peace treaty.
“A number of articles of the peace treaty have been agreed but a number of articles of fundamental importance have not yet been agreed, and efforts must be made in that direction,” said Pashinyan.
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