Christopher Atamian

Christopher Atamian is a noted writer and creative producer of Italian–Armenian background and the grandson of Armenian Genocide survivors. He is an alumnus of Harvard University, Columbia Business School and USC FIlm School, a former Fulbright Scholar. Apart from creative endeavors and professional activities as a senior executive in leading media companies and consultancies (ABC, Ogilvy & Mather, J.P. Morgan), Atamian has concentrated on community activism. He is the former President and a current board member of AGLA New York and in 2004 founded Nor Alik, a non-profit cultural organization responsible for producing the First Armenian International Film Festival. Atamian also co-produced the OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise in 2006, directed by Elyse Singer, as well as several music videos and short films. Atamian was selected for the 2009 Venice Biennale on the basis of his video Sarafian’s Desire and received a 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He continues to contribute critical pieces to leading publications such as The New York Times Book Review and The Huffington Post, Scenes Media and The Weekly Standard, while working on other creative endeavors in film and theater.
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Chris Edwards’ ‘Balls’: A Memoir About Trans(cending) Gender

Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some Author: Chris Edwards Greenleaf Book Group Press (Oct. 4, 2016), 264 pp. ISBN:…

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‘Lou-Andreas Salomé’ and ‘Hot Country, Cold Winter’ Win Best Picture Award at 2018 Socially Relevant Film Festival

NEW YORK (A.W.)—The Fifth Annual Socially Relevant Film Festival ended with the announcement that two films had won the Grand…

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Book Review: Bohjalian’s ‘The Flight Attendant’—Murder, Russian Style

The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian Doubleday, New York (March 13, 2018), 368 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542418; Hardcover, $26.95 Special to the…

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Defying Erasure: Armenian Photographers in the Middle Eastern Photographic Imagination

Special to the Armenian Weekly Two recent books from the Beirut publishing house Al Ayn’s “Photographes du Moyen Orient” (Collection…

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Reaching Out to All Armenians: ‘Equality Armenia’ and the Fight for LGBTQ Rights

Special to the Armenian Weekly Almost anyone who has grown up in and around an Armenian community knows that LGBTQ…

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