Christine Vartoughian

Christine Vartoughian is an award-winning, Armenian-American writer and director whose work has shown at Lincoln Center, Museum of the Moving Image, and whose feature film about love and suicide, Living with the Dead: A Love Story, has been awarded the Audience Choice Award at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Aberdeen Film Festival, and is available on Apple TV and Amazon, in the U.S. and internationally. Her screenplay, The Great Perhaps, is an adaptation of the Joe Meno novel, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and has been a part of film festivals and script competitions.

Christine founded (Screen)Play Press, a publishing company for yet-to-be-produced film scripts. Her feature script, Young Monsters, was published in 2022 and her short fiction has been published in The Bookends Review, Quibble Lit, 805 Lit + Art, Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters, and Audience Askew. Her debut collection of short stories is set to be published in 2025. She lives in New York City.

Format: Scripted Features, Scripted Episodic

Genre: Coming of Age, Drama, Comedy

Location: New York, United States

Quarterfinalist - Stowe Story Labs, Short Film Production Grant - 2024

Best Feature Film - Aberdeen Film Festival - 2015

Audience Choice Award - Art of Brooklyn Film Festival - 2015

Presidential Fellowship - Savannah College of Art & Design - 2009