Shoghakat Vardanyan was born in 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia. Musician, in 2014, she graduated from the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan with a Bachelor’s in Piano. Since 2017 she has been playing free improvisations and became a part of the Contemporary Sound Orchestra of Yerevan. She participated in the EurasiaDoc Armenia workshop, as well as the DocTrain Armenia Workshop, where she was mentored by the Russian filmmaker and producer Marina Razbezhkina. 1489 is her first film.
