The son of a Belgian anesthesiologist and an Armenian ophthalmologist, Raffi Asdourian oddly enough has been interested in the world of movies from a very young age.
Throughout high school, he wrote and directed several plays for the drama program, among them 'Of the Blue' won a national youth playwright award and was produced throughout the world. Raffi also strived to make video filmmaking an accessible tool at his high school. Through his efforts, he chartered the first ever video production class, allowing him to make several short films, which were screened for the entire school body. The collected works of his projects were sold on VHS to the school body selling over 400 units for both his junior and senior year.
Raffi then attended the prestigious NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where he continued to follow his dream of pursuing filmmaking as a fulltime career, making a total of twenty short films. Among the films made, "Kuragannon" a ten-minute short premiered in a Kodak sponsored student screening at the 2003 Cannes film festival. His thesis film “Stranger” was admitted into a high profile art gallery, the Florence Lynch Gallery, and was made available for sale while touring over twenty galleries around the world as part of a showcase entitled "Rewind" and a global online festival called Streaming Festival.
Raffi Asdourian currently works as a freelance TV/Commercial/Film editor in New York City in addition to writing for The Film Stage. He has written five feature length screenplays and has recently completed a new short film "Ai", which was filmed in Japanese and has been featured in over 10 film festivals and won several awards.
ARTISTIC CREDITS
Convergence Entertainment (2010) - Feature Screenplay - Writer [Videogame adaptation for film]
iTV (2010) - TV Show - Editor [A&E, Runaway Squad reality show]
Zooma Zooma (2010) - Feature Documentary -Editor [Norman Mailer documentary]
Good Housekeeping (2009) - TV Show - Editor [Holiday TV Special]
Sharp Entertainment (2008-2009) – TV Shows – Editor [Animal Planet, Travel Channel prime time shows]
Radar (2009) – Web Series – Editor [Babelgum sponsored web series]
RDF Media (2008) – TV Show - Development Editor [pitches in development for RDF]
Ai (2008) - Short Film – Writer, Editor, Director - [Award winning samurai short film in Japanese]
Pangea Day (2008) – Global Event – Senior Editor [www.pangeaday.org]
Wife Swap (2007) – TV Show – Editor [ABC primetime reality show]
Gary Beeber (2007) - Video Art - Editor [Series of succesful art videos]
Clinton Global Initiative (2006) - Even - Director - [Live Webcast and Behind the Scenes]
Clinton Global Initiative (2006) – Promo Video - Director - [promotional video]
House of Hoops (2006) - Commercial- Editor - [Editor, Nike and Footlocker campaign]
Edun/One Campaign (2006) - Commercial - Editor - [Bono's One campaign T-Shirt Promo]
Verschwinden (2005) - Feature Film - Editor - [Independent Feature Film]
The Isaac Mizrahi Show (2005) - TV show - Editor - [Talk show on Lifestyle TV]
Maya and Miguel (2005) - TV show – Editor/Motion Graphics - [Children’s show on PBS]
Life and Style (2004) - TV show - Editor - [Talk show with Kimora Lee Simmons]
Stranger (2004) - Short Film – Writer, Editor, Director - [Thesis film at NYU. Adaptation of Albert Camus Novel]
Kuragannon (2003) - Short Film – Writer, Editor, Director - [Surreal abstract film made at NYU]