Ella Mikayelyan is a photographer, film maker and visual artist from Armenia based in Los Angeles, California. Since the age of 5, she has known self-expression through art only. She hopes to continue making art only for the sake of art and urges everyone to embrace full freedom of expression regardless of their background. She has made her directorial debut with Faultline.
Gabriella Vore is an actor, artist, filmmaker and writer in Los Angeles, California. Growing up in the Midwest, they spent every waking moment dedicating themselves to art of all forms but primarily film. They graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts Los Angeles in 2017. They hope to help change the world with love and acceptance through controversial works. This has been their directorial debut with Faultline.

Gabriella: When I first auditioned for Faultline in 2017, I was miserable. I was in a dead end job and an even more dead-end relationship. I couldn’t tell you the extent of how stunted, and starving for more I was. And then I walked into an audition. It was Ella Mikayelyan’s audition for Faultline. We eventually bonded and rewrote and embarked on what would be the hardest part of our lives thus far, from raising the impossible funds to working with an more impossibly complicated story. Faultline became our actual baby. And for that child, we’ve sweat literal blood and tears. But as life does, it falls apart. We hit rock bottom in so many ways and were at the cross roads of “should we just give up?”, “Will we ever finish this?”, “Is there even a point anymore?”. After many needed personal breaks and breakdowns, we prevailed. We finished Faultline with many sleepless nights tucked forever under our belts. I realized this is my coming-of-age story. I learned who I was during this project. I had my heart destroyed. I learned to bow down entirely to a character and I learned the true love of my life- making films. Words will always fall short for what this project has meant to me. Faultline was my home. Faultline raised me in so many ways. Anything is possible as long as you never give up. Please, always remember that. I wouldn’t be the person I am today without Faultline.

Ella: Before Faultline was Faultline, it had many other names. I accidentally ended up in a film making class and came up with an obtuse story based on a dream I had one night. At the time I was trying to express my feelings of loneliness and isolation within the city’s culture and overall attitude of Los Angeles; the great big concrete jungle, one big grey cement world. We worked on Faultline, or what it was at the time. At last Faultline shaped its way into the story of what it was meant to be. I wanted a brutally honest and raw story that I have been afraid to tell for so long. I want to thank the black hole that I pulled this story out of. Thank you for everyone who helped along the way and thank you even more to those who did not believe in me- I needed the extra push.

G & E - Faultline wrote itself and it was up to us to decide what it meant.