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Vem Media Arts is a highly professional film production studio offering full-service, multi-lingual audiovisual production capabilities. Its services span from development and production of original TV shows, video clips, commercials and other video materials to multi-media presentations, documentaries and shorts. Since its successful debut with the film short “Competition” at COAF’s first Annual “Save a Generation” Award Benefit in N.Y. City on June 24, 2004, Vem Media Arts has produced a series of environmental documentaries comprising 11 movies that were favorably received both in Armenia and the Diaspora. Written by Inga Zarafyan and directed by Hayk Kbeyan (“Shikahogh” was directed by Nikolay Davtyan), all the 11 documentaries were funded by Armenia Tree Project, Armenian Forests NGO, and the World Wildlife Fund Caucasus Office, as well as by the American University of Armenia’s Environmental Conservation and Research Center (“Yerevan: City or Desert?”), the Greens Union of Armenia (“Poisoning for Profit”), and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (“Evil Quartet”).

Vem Media Arts has also produced the “Spiritual Discussions” and “Catechism" series of shows for television broadcasting.

In 2010, Vem Media Arts completed shooting of a grandiose documentary feature, “From Ararat to Zion” depicting the centuries-old Armenian presence in the Holy Land.

Deadly Formulas (Air Pollution)

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The 20-minute documentary film is about air pollution in Armenia and the main reasons causing air pollution. Vehicles, factories, and combustion emission from waste removal produce harmful carcinogens and toxic substances, placing the population and the ecosystems at highest health risks.

Parallel to this, another dangerous phenomenon--destruction of green areas--has taken place on a wide scale.

Date of production: May, 2006.

Plant a Tree (Reforestation)

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This 20-minute documentary features the years-long successful efforts of Armenia Tree Project (founded in 1994) and Armenian Forests NGO (founded in 1994) to support efficient forestation and rehabilitation works in various regions of Armenia and Artsakh and further the country’s economic and social development through mobilizing resources to fund tree planting.

Date of production: July, 2006.

Wastes

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The 20-minute documentary film features the problem of wastes and their disposal, including household refuse and industrial wastes containing numerous toxic compounds and polluting the air and, through the sewage waters, the soil, thus creating extreme danger for both human health and the environment. Particularly harmful are the chlororganic pesticides buried in a special burial site built in Armenia in 1982.

Utmost attention must be paid to the disposal of plastic polymeric wastes that total 30% of household rubbish. Recycling is the only environmentally sound way to dispose of it.

Date of production: August, 2006.

Flowing Wealth (Water Resources)

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This 20-minute documentary features the disturbing situation with Armenia’s water resources, its most precious asset. The anthropogenic pressure on natural resources is growing day by day, and water is the primary bearer of this pressure.

However, we need to realize that if oil and gas resources are exhausted, it is possible to shift to alternative sources of energy, whereas fresh water has no replacement whatsoever.

Date of production: October, 2006.

Poisoning for Profit (Underground Resources)

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This 23-minute documentary features the irrecoverable harm caused to nature and population by the mining industry in Armenia. The mining waste enters the air, the soil, and ultimately pollutes the irrigation and drinking water.

Date of production: March, 2007.