2012 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award was presented on April 29 at Four Seasons LA to Mardik Martin — the legendary screenwriter of Martin Scorsese’s seminal films Mean Streets and Raging Bull starring Robert De Niro. Mardik Martin is among the screenwriters on WGA’s list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written, and he has taught screenwriting at NYU and USC. His latest film, The Cut, about the 1915 Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Turkish empire, premiered and was awarded at the 2014 Venice Film Festival (La Biennale).
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute 
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