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SCREENWRITING AWARD

2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund Quarterfinalist (additional finalist rounds have yet to be determined)

FILM PRODUCTION AWARD

2022 University of Film and Video Foundation Faculty Research and Production Award

FESTIVAL SCREENING AWARDS

2019
Women Film Critics Circle Award Nominee, Socially Relevant Film Festival New York
Director’s Choice Award, Black Maria Film Festival, Traveling festival

2018
1st Place Audience Favorite, Florida Animation Festival, Tallahassee,FL
Best Animation Short Nominee, Arpa International Film Festival, Hollywood, CA

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS/Official Selection

2021
Demetera International Film Festival, Paris, France

2020
Black Maria (Thomas Edison) Film Festival, New Jersey
Armenian Institute Animation Festival, London, UK

2019
Armenians in Film at Lincoln Center, NYC, NY

2019
KIN International Women’s Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
The Armenian Film Festival. Sydney, Australia
University Film and Video Association National Conference, Minneapolis, MN
Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ
Socially Relevant Film Festival New York (Women Film Critics Circle Award Nominee), New York City, NY
Black Maria Film Festival (Director’s Choice Award), Traveling festival
SPE, Media Film Festival, Cleveland, OH
Dumbo Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2018
Rockport Film Festival, Rockport, TX
Alexandria Film Festival, Alexandria, VA
Pomegranate Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
Arpa International Film Festival (Best Animated Short Nominee), Hollywood, CA
Montana International Film Festival, Billings, MT
Atlanta ShortsFest/ Atlanta Film Series, Atlanta, GA
Florida Animation Festival (1st Place Audience Award), Tallahassee, FL
Austin Spotlight Film Festival, Austin, TX
Animayo (Semi-Finalist, Oscar qualifying festival), Gran Canaria, Spain

2015
Southern Colorado Film Festival, (Finalist for Best Foreign Film), Alamosa, CO

2014
Aesthetica Film Festival, (Finalist, BAFTA qualifying festival), London, UK

2013
Multicultural Caucus Film and Video Festival, SPE National Conference, Chicago, IL

2011
Women’s Film Festival, SPE National Conference, Atlanta, GA
Voice of This Generation: War Wedding Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA (Commissioned for Tony Solitro, Operatic Composter)

2010
Local Female Filmmakers, Billtown Film Festival, Williamsport, PA

2009
Women’s Film Festival, SPE National Conference, Dallas, TX

2006
International Digital Media Arts Festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia

2004
Film and Video Annual, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA

2000
Void Video Space, New York, NY (curated by Cecelia Dougherty)

JUROR

2021
Special Juror for the New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL “Rising Star Exhibition” DISCIPLINE: INTRA | INTER | CROSS| MULTI

2018
Exchange Gallery, “The Future Multi-Media Exhibition”, Bloomsburg, PA

EXHIBITION AWARDS

2012
Best in Show, Park Art Fair International, Geneva, Switzerland

EXHIBITIONS

2023
"100 Miles", Regional Juried Exhibition, Penn College, Williamsport, PA

2018
“I’m New Here: Perspectives on Migration”, The Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
2015
3-person Exhibition, “Sorry, I Miss You”, The Gallery at Greely Center, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

2014
Solo Exhibition, “The Past Is Present”, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA

2013
Park Art Fair International, Triberg, Germany

2012
Park Art Fair International, Geneva, Switzerland
“A Path Home: Visualizing Trauma and Healing”, Montclair University, Jersey City, NJ
“From What I Remember, From What I Forget”, Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
“What a Long Night It Has Been”, Gallery 214, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
“Hyperrealism”, Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
Faculty Exhibition, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA

2011
Billboard Arts Project: Projections, Corona/Riverside, CA
“Final Girl Coup d’Espace”, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

2010
“Between Realities”, Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Faculty Exhibition, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA 2009
“24x24”, Thomas Paul Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibition, “Leah Bedrosian Peterson”, Flatiron Gallery, Williamsport, PA
Faculty Exhibition, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA

2008
“Broken Telephone/Telefono Roto Version II”
Meliton Rodriguez Gallery
Art Institute of Medellin, Colombia
Workspace Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Women’s Month Exhibition, CT Room, Williamsport, PA
Faculty Exhibition, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA

2007
Faculty Exhibition, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA

2005
“Bridge-Breach”, Patricia Doran Gallery, Boston CyberArts Festival, Boston, MA
“Big & Awesome: Thesis Exhibition”, Aidekman Gallery, Medford, MA
“Suburban Archeology”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Open Space, Foyer Gallery, Boston, MA

2004
Media Room, The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA 2003
Photo Annual, Atrium Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA 2002
Solo Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

2001
“Dreams and Nightmares”, Third Eye Gallery, Denver, CO

PUBLICATIONS

2013
Das Ereb Welt | Heritage of the World (Germany)|Feature Article published with National Geographic, pages 108-112, Spring 2013 ed.

2013
Hunger Magazine and HungerTV.com |Feature Story, London, UK 

2012
Park Art Fair International, Exhibition catalog

2005
The Dig Boston, Interview Feature about Armenian Online Dating

LECTURES and/or PANEL DISCUSSION

2020
Armenian Institute, London UK; Filmmaker Panel, “Under the Walnut Tree” virtual Q&A

2016
The School of Visual Arts, NYC, Artist Lecture, “On Identity and Praxis”

2015
Memphis College of Arts, MFA Program at the Nesin Graduate School (Professional Practices), Artist Guest Lecturer

2007
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Artist Lecture

TV INTERVIEWS and PANEL DISCUSSIONS

2018
Good Morning Armenians, Glendale, CA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jk2A_qeBN8&feature=youtu.be

2017
School of Visual Arts, NYC: On Identity and Praxis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpqHvzioJI

LYCOMING COLLEGE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

2022 “Brave Little Hawk”
Student Research Grant

2017 LITT Grant (Technology and Innovation)

2015 “Under the Walnut Tree”
Student Research Grant

2014 “The Past is Present”

2012 “May I Go Blind”
Student Research Grant

2010 “Erasure”

2009 “Yeah, I Was Looking at You”

COLLECTIONS

Berkman, Henoch and Peddy, LLC
NY Philip Morris
NY CBM Associates, NY
Mark Gallery, NJ

EDUCATION

M.F.A., Studio Art, Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
B.F.A., summa cum laude, Photography and Art History, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

BOARDS and ORGANIZATIONS

Director, OnScreen International Film and Video Festival (current)
Board of Directors, Exchange Gallery, Bloomsburg, PA (current)
Board of Directors, Central Pennsylvania Film Office (former)
Executive Board, Billtown Film Festival, (former)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2007- current Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA
Chair, Department of Film and Video Arts
Professor of Film and Video Arts
Film and Video Arts Program Coordinator
2D Animation Program Coordinator

2005-2007
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant to Sharon Harper

2005-2007
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Post Graduate Teaching Fellow/Instructor of Photography


2002-2005
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Graduate Fellow/Instructor of Photography


2003-2005
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Teaching Assistant to Jim Dow and Ron Rizzi