Role: Director

Born in Kirovakan in Armenia, Avedis Ohanian studied music in Syria and he holds the diploma from the Liceo Armeno Moorat-Raphael in Venice which he obtained in 1987. After a period in Armenia, where he studied medicine and was a voluntary helper during the disastrous earthquake there in 1988, he came back to Italy.\

Atom Egoyan is the director of such acclaimed films as CALENDAR, EXOTICA, THE SWEET HEREAFTER and his most recent work WHERE THE TRUTH LIES. He has won numerous prizes at international film festivals including the Grand Prix and International Critics Awards from the Cannes Film Festival and two Academy Award nominations. His films have been presented in major retrospectives around the world and a number of books have been written about his work. Egoyan’s installations have been exhibited at museums and galleries in Canada and abroad, including the Venice Biennale. Egoyan was President of the Jury at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. His production of Wagner’s Die Walküre was performed by the Canadian Opera Company in April, 2004 and will be remounted in Autumn, 2006. In 2005 Egoyan premiered WHERE THE TRUTH LIES, starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon, at the Cannes Film Festival.