Arto Paragamian

{{short description|Canadian film director and writer}}

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| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

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Arto Paragamian is a Canadian film director and writer known for Two Thousand and None (2000), Because Why (1993) and Cosmos (1996). As a Concordia University undergraduate, Paragamian won the Norman McLaren Award (at the time the top Canadian student film prize) for two consecutive years with A Fish Story (1987) and Across the Street (1988).{{Cite web|url=http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/student-awards/66-awards-18th-canadian-student-film-festivall-1987.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906172123/http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/student-awards/66-awards-18th-canadian-student-film-festivall-1987.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 6, 2015|title=

AWARDS - 18TH CANADIAN STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL - 1987|publisher=www.ffm-montreal.org |date= |accessdate=2017-05-11}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/student-awards/65-awards-19th-canadian-student-film-festival-1988.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925115738/http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/student-awards/65-awards-19th-canadian-student-film-festival-1988.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 25, 2015|title=

AWARDS - 19TH CANADIAN STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL - 1988|publisher=www.ffm-montreal.org |date= |accessdate=2017-05-11}}