When Tarkovsky inscribed and sent his child's drawing to the imprisoned Parajanov, who annotated and forwarded it to the blacklisted Vartanov for his son Martiros - Boy with a Movie Camera - he became their disciple. His first film, The Last Film, dedicated to them, was released by Criterion. A graduate of UCLA, he was a juror and a curator at festivals in Los Angeles, DOC LA, Busan, and Amsterdam, and worked on the restoration of the masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates selected for Festival de Cannes.

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Martiros Vartanov

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