Hayk Kirakosyan

Hayk Kirakosyan was born in USSR in 1962 His father was an engineerdesigner and his mother was an electronics engineer His interest in cinema started at age of 11 when he began to study photography at Art School and subsequently continued his education in Cinematography department at State Institute of Cinema VGIK Moscow He graduated from Vladimir Monakhovs class as a valedictorian student when he was 22 As a student he was employed as a trainee camera assistant with famous cinematographers such as Leonid Kalashnikov Albert Yavuryan and Levon Atoyants After completing his education at VGIK MFA he started working as a cinematographer on several short and fulllength documentary feature and animation films He was also a lecturer at the Cinema Television Department Faculty of State Pedagogical Institute Yerevan USSR between 1987 and 1991 Since 1991 Kirakosyan has been working both in Armenia and Russia In addition between 19941999 he was a cameraman MPS TV editor In Paradise Production and director in VKT TV in Moscow In 2000 he moved to Istanbul Turkey Keeps working on feature projects commercial films and music videos in Turkey Russia and Armenia Since 2006 teaching Cinematography and Advanced Cinematography at Kadir Has Istanbul Bilgi Universities and Plato College of Higher Education Kirakosyan held workshops at the Marmara İstanbul and Bilkent Ankara universities 645 Art Club Eskişehir Bursa International Film Festival Atif Yilmaz Turkish National Film School between 2007 and 2010 In 2008 he was a jury member at the Adana Golden Cocoon and in 2014 at the Antalya Golden Orange International Film Festivals Since 1991 Kirakosyan is a member of the Filmmakers Union of Russia and member of the Guild of Cinematographers of Russia RGC Since 2005 member of European Federation of Cinematographers from Russia IMAGO Since 2014 member of the Turkish Society of Cinematographers IMDb Mini bio by yusufpiskin