Independent producer, director and cinematographer born in Lebanon and based
in Los Angeles with various projects to his credits in fiction,
documentary, educational videos and television commercials. He
holds a BA and MFA in Film & Television from UCLA.

Ara's works range from shorts to features. The Pink
Elephant , his first film, won the Panavision award and has been
screened in various international film festivals and television
venues. For eight years he has produced ArmeniaFundTelethon,
live global telecast. He has produced and directed projects for
Czech Television and for Monterey Institute for International
Studies. He has also produced educational videos for Los
Angeles County Refugee Project. He made his screen-acting
debut in Radio Inside, featured on Showtime. His cinematography
experience includes of several films. His latest feature
cinematography works are Final Cutz released in 2019 and Berserkers in 2021.

Ara has also been active in LA theater community as an
actor, taking the stage in Baron Garbis, Two Hundred, Quicksand
and The Pink Elephant.

For several years, Ara lectured on Armenian cinema at the
ARS Summer Studies Program at Amherst and Bradford colleges.
He has produced and directed over thirty television commercials
and corporate films. Ara is currently working with the Smithsonian
Institution on My Armenia program that harnesses the power of
storytelling to strengthen cultural heritage sustainability. In 2017,
he self-published "Birds Nest, A Photographic Essay of Bourj Hammoud."

Master Eddy is Ara's second feature documentary.