Aramazt Kalayjian was born May 7th, 1982 in New York, U.S.A. He studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where he received his Bachelors in Fine Arts in Communications Design. He is debuting his first film in the music documentary, TEZETA, which was shot over the course of a decade.
Kalayjian’s prior film work had focused on advertising before attending the Maysles Institute in East Harlem, centering on studies in independent documentary filmmaking. His first directed music video with music performer, Vahe, received international recognition in Africa being aired on South Africa’s Channel 0.
Kalayjian currently lives in New York and Yerevan working on a screenplay for a taxi driver anthology that weaves a city together through a panoply of taxi driver experiences, as well as a documentary about the global obesity epidemic despite modern medicine and cultural shifts regarding nutrition.
