Irina Patkanian

(she/her/hers)

writer/director/producer, In Parentheses, non profit film, theater and media arts company

Brooklyn, New York US

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Filmmaker / CUNY Professor of Film & Media Arts

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Irina Patkanian is an award-winning filmmaker, a Fulbright scholar, a professor of film & media arts at Brooklyn College and the co-founder and artistic director of “In Parentheses,” a NYC based nonprofit film, theater & media arts company. Irina Patkanian makes hybrid (fiction/nonfiction) films questioning history with poetry, memory with animation, behavior with performance. Irina’s films have screened at 150+ film festivals worldwide, winning 30+ awards. Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from NYSCA, NYFA, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Tow, Blaustein, Troy, FACE, Puffin and Jerome Foundations, as well as artist residencies at MacDowell and The Millay Arts; Ucross and the Art Studios of Key West; VCCA and Obermann Center for Humanities; Greywood Arts, Watershed Art Studios and Cowhouse in Ireland; Art House Holland and Villa Lena Foundation in Italy.

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