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Films
Vem Media Arts is a highly professional video 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”). Yerevan: City or Desert?
This 20-minute environmental film features the testimonies of experts and city residents to the deteriorating environmental condition and loss of green spaces in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan that started during the energy crisis of the early 1990s. Threads of Hope (Lake Sevan)
The 23-minute documentary provides a historical overview of Lake Sevan, Armenia’s national treasure of strategic importance, and highlights the environmental concerns facing the lake, its unique biodiversity and the watershed. |