Jivan Avetisyan

Jivan Avetisyan (Armenian: Ջիվան Ավետիսյան) is an Armenian international award-winning film director, who was born in Gyumri, raised in Stepanakert, Artsakh and lives in Yerevan, Armenia.

In 2024, he became a member of the European Film Academy.

Avetisyan is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2020 and MIDPOINT Institute, a participant of CineLink Producers’ Lab 2024 and a member of the European Film Academy.

In 2020 he simultaneously selected to become a subject of a documentary by Deutsche Welle.

He created more than 10 documentaries and shorts as well as three feature films, Tevanik (streaming on Amazon Prime and Tube), The Last Inhabitant (acquired by HBO Eastern Europe, broadcast by PBS, and streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi) and Gate to Heaven (released on SBS Australia and theatrically released with AMC Theatres in the USA) have their own individual global success stories in the international cinematic world. The team’s fourth feature film, Revival, is in the post- production stage in parallel to which the team is developing their next feature film, Angels 2020.

Jivan has participated in multiple international film festivals including Golden Apricot and Shanghai International Film Festival. Jivan’s films have also won in “Best Feature Film” and “Best Director” categories.

Showreel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjkXK1iuh58

His filmography includes over ten documentaries including Karabakh a Hidden Treasure, short films including Broken Childhood.