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Vahram Mkhitaryan was born in 1977 in Armenia. He is director and photographer. In 2001, Vahram Mkhitaryan graduated from the Armenian State Pedagogical University, Culture Faculty where he had studied at the Department of Feature Films Directing (Dmitry Kesayants’ studio). Afterwards he engaged in the production of Public Service Announcements as director, cinematographer and scriptwriter. In 2005 he came to Poland as a scholar of "The Lane Kirkland Program of Polish-American Freedom Foundation" and the Polish-American Fulbright Commission. He worked as assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In 2009 and 2011 he received a scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture. He graduated from Wajda School's programs "Development Lab" for feature films and "DokPro" for documentary films. In 2014 he finished his first independent documentary film "Shepherd`s Song" and his first short film "Milky Brother". Both films are first Polish-Armenian co-productions.