That’s right, happy birthday, Manana Youth Films, you’re 1 year old now! Although our core crew has been working together for much longer than a year, the studio was officially founded a year ago.
Usually, when you hear about some “youth studio”, it’s either a small production organization founded and sponsored by a film college, which produces one or two shorts per year (usually the diploma works of the students), or it’s a place where film students gather, but never produce anything, although keep calling it a studio.
About a year ago we had an idea of starting an independent organization, where young filmmakers will work on projects that other studios may not risk to take, a place that will challenge the classic production companies by its own new way of running visual arts business. A place where ambitious young professionals (or non-professionals), which share our philosophy of filmmaking, will get a solid platform to speak up.
And during this year we’ve achieved quite a lot. MYF is known in most of the film festivals, including the biggest film events, it has partners and friends among many companies around the world that work in different spheres of film and media industry, our films have been screened and broadcasted worldwide, our filmmakers right now simultaneously work on a number of very different projects, from full-length documentaries to experimental shorts, we invite the best professionals both from Armenia and abroad to give their advice to us during the work. We also managed to be announced wanted by an international security system (you know how it’s called), get arrested, sued (proven not guilty) and drive national securities nuts.
And now I can proudly announce that Manana Youth Films is one of the most successful independent youth film studios in the world. We have a pile of the most ambitious plans of conquering the galaxy, this first year was just a small percent of what we intend to do in this sphere.
For one more time, thanks to Manana Youth Center, where most of our filmmakers studied while being teenagers; a place where you learn to break all the possible boundaries, a magic factory where kids realize that crazy ideas worth living for.
Thanks to all the people that believed in us since the very beginning and has been crazy enough to support our ideas. You won’t regret it.
Happy birthday!
