Ani Tatintsyan is an Armenian-American writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. She was born in Goris, Armenia and moved to the United States with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA in Political Science and English Literature from the University of Southern California (USC), and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her thesis Melancholic Attachments: Political Agency of Sadness has been an influential part of her artistic practice. She has presented her academic work at Columbia University, George Washington University, and Humber College in Toronto.
In 2018, she finished production on “Pre-Mortem”, a comedy TV pilot, co-created with Danny Simonzad. The show, starring Tatintsyan herself, follows Alina Parsegian, a directionless postal worker who is forced to face inevitable life lessons when the spirit of her dead ex-boyfriend starts communicating with her via FaceTime. The show had its LA premiere on June 22, 2019 at the historical Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. For inquiries please contact anitatintsyan@gmail.com