Ms. Tatoyan’s writing/directing debut short film, Toujours, was a selection at the Arpa International Film Festival 2012.  ​She is currently writing the pilot for her TV series in development entitled Three Apples fell from Heaven. Concurrently Ms. Tatoyan is developing Azad(the rabbit and wolf) alongside two time Obie award winning theater artist Jared Mezzocchi and producer Bill Pullman.

ScrIPTS

  • The First Full Moon | Feature Film
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2011 Sundance/RAWI participant and 2012 Dubai Film Connection/Festival Project

What is love? What is family? What are boundaries? Are these things even definable?
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​Two wars are going on: a civil war in Syria and a war of love in the heart of Zulal Kazazian. Zulal’s childhood curse has left her childless and reeling from a youthful incestuous relationship with her uncle. As Zulal battles the demons of her past she is forced to ask: was her sexual affair something else, something more like love?

    
  • Azad (the rabbit and the wolf) | Multimedia theatrical script

Recipient of 2023 inaguaral University of Connecticut Global Affairs Digital Media residency, Harvard artlab residency 2023, Wake Forest University Leadership and Character Residency 2024.

Syrian-Armenian-American theater and film artist Sona Tatoyan, stranded in the otherwise abandoned Aleppo family home during the Syrian war, fears for her dear friend and mentor, Turkish human rights activist Osman Kavala, recently jailed and facing a possible life sentence. Amid this backdrop, she discovers her great-great grandfather’s handmade Karagöz shadow puppets a century after he salvaged his family and his art from the Armenian Genocide. These puppets have their own stories to tell; some bawdy and hilarious, others horrifying. They lead her through a dizzying psychedelic, intergenerational mental landscape with the help of master storyteller—ScherAzad - who enchants a vengeful king by spinning tales of 1001 Nights, ultimately healing his rage and inspiring empathy. Sona relives her own personal journey, isolated and an outsider both in suburban Indiana and in Aleppo. She is a wounded storyteller, in her denying, hiding, and revealing of secrets. The only way out is through. From the ashes of her own and ancestral anguish, she alchemizes a radiant truth with universal implications: Those who are debased and destroyed have the power to transfigure trauma into spiritual wholeness through reframed stories that celebrate our collective resilience and humanity.

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