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Photo by Liana Margaryan on September 01, 2026. May be an image of one or more people and text.

Liana Margaryan@lio___m

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MONTE: A FILM ABOUT A FILM Produced by Genetic Productions, with Nona Sargsyan as Executive Producer, Monte is a feature film about the life and legacy of Monte Melkonian. Monte: A Film About a Film is my personal documentary initiated by Genetic Productions that emerged alongside its making. As the only Diaspora Armenian in the crew, I found myself observing the production from a different perspective not simply documenting how a film was made, but exploring my own relationship with Armenia, identity, belonging, and the idea of homeland. During the process, I also developed a personal friendship with the film’s lead actor, Vladimir Msryan. That relationship gradually became part of my experience of the film, allowing the documentary to move beyond observing a production and into something more intimate and human. Rather than a traditional behind-the-scenes documentary, the film observes what happens around the filmmaking: the people, the waiting, the conversations, the spaces, and the small moments that exist before the camera rolls and after it stops. Shot between Yerevan and Beirut, the documentary developed its own visual language, combining digital cinematography with analog still photography. Monte is scheduled for release in November. Following its release, Monte: A Film About a Film will begin its own journey moving beyond the film it started by documenting and taking on a life of its own. At its heart, it is a film about friendship, filmmaking, Armenia and the Diaspora a personal story that was born within another film, but gradually became a film of its own.