Deirmenjian co-founded The Group Collectively, an alliance of filmmakers unified by a similar vision and love of making movies. Many of the short films produced by the group garnered festival selections and awards, including "Cleaning Up Mat... more >

Deirmenjian co-founded The Group Collectively, an alliance of filmmakers unified by a similar vision and love of making movies. Many of the short films produced by the group garnered festival selections and awards, including "Cleaning Up Matters," "The Cold Farewell," "Fall Guy," and "Love, Charles."

Deirmenjian's signature short film, "That's How Sinatra Rolls, Kid!" won Best Picture at the Underground Vegas Film Festival. This dark tale about the dark side of the great crooner and scotch lover earned much acclaim. Troma's Lloyd Kaufman (director of "The Toxic Avenger" and "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead") jubilantly exclaimed, "I give it 2 hands up! Wayyyyy up!" and David Schmoeller (director of "Puppet Master" and "Please Kill Mr. Kinski") called it "the perfect short."

Deirmenjian graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a Bachelor of Arts in Film, cum laude. He also studied at The Second City. < less