Shoghakat Vardanyan was born in 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia. Vardanyan is a professional musician, graduating in 2014 from the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan with a Bachelor’s in Piano. Since 2017, she has been playing free improvisations and has become a part of the Contemporary Sound Orchestra of Yerevan. She participated in the EurasiaDoc Armenia workshop, as well as the DocTrain Armenia Workshop, where she was mentored by the Russian filmmaker and producer Marina Razbezhkina. 1489 (2023) is her first film.