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PRODUCTION: Mariam Khatchvani Shoots Dede

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-11-27

TBILISI: Mariam Khatchvani is in production with her debut feature, Dede. The first part of shooting took place in autumn 2015 and winter shooting is set for January 2016. The…

Georgia to Finalise Cash Rebate Law End of November

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-11-13

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) will have a cash rebate law by the end of November 2015 that will provide a 20 percent rebate of the qualifying expenses and…

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Venice

FNE Staff Georgia 2015-11-06

COTTBUS: Georgian writer/director/producer Rusudan Chkonia’s lingering problems with purchasing a new flat inspire her black comedy Venice, which was pitched at Connecting Cottbus on 5 November 2015. The project won…

GRANTS: Georgia Announces Script Development Funds for Comedies and Children Films

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-11-05

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center allotted 22,841.7 EUR / 60,000 GEL for the script development of six comedies and children’s feature films.

GRANTS: Georgia Announces Coproduction Grants

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-11-03

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Centre allotted 341,769 EUR / 900,000 GEL to three majority feature coproductions directed by Revaz Gigineishvili, Dimitri Tsintsadze and George Ovashvili, but the latter refused the…

FESTIVALS: Slovak Comeback Wins Georgian CineDOC Festival

FNE Staff Georgia 2015-10-28

TBILISI: The Slovak film Comeback directed by Miro Remo won the main prize of the international competition at the first CineDoc IDFF at the awards ceremony on 24 October 2015.

FESTIVALS: CinéDOC-Tbilisi Ready to Kick Off

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-10-21

TBILISI: The 3rd edition of CinéDOC-Tbilisi, the only International Documentary Film Festival in the Caucasus, will take place from 21 to 25 October 2015.

Nastassja Kinsky with BIAFF director Giorgi Gogiberidze at the gala ceremony, Source BIAFF

FNE at BIAFF 2015: Winners of the 10th Batumi International ArtHouse Film Festival

Michal Klimkiewicz Georgia 2015-09-22

BATUMI: The 10th Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF) held in Batumi 13-20 September 2015 gave its Grand Prix to the Georgian born director Bakur Bakuradze for his film Broder…

Obituary: Writer Rezo Cheishvili

FNE Staff Georgia 2015-09-15

TBILISI: Acclaimed Georgian writer and screenwriter Revaz (Rezo) Cheishvili passed away at 82. He wrote the script of Eldar Shengelaia's famous Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983, Kartuli Pilmi), an…

Georgia and Lithuania Announce Their Oscar Bids

FNE Staff Georgia 2015-09-14

TBILISI/VILNIUS: Levan Tutberidze's Moira and Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangaile have been selected by Georgia and Lithuania to compete in the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language film.

Batumi International Arthouse Film Festival Announces Line Up

FNE Staff Georgia 2015-09-09

BATUMI: A total of 49 films are competing in the four sections of the 10th Batumi Arthouse Film Festival, one of the major film events in the Black Sea and…

PRODUCTION: Georgian Refugee Boat Enguri in Postproduction

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-08-17

TBILISI: Vakhtang Varazi’s 72-minute documentary Refugee Boat Enguri is in postproduction with the premiere set for spring 2016.

PRODUCTION: Georgian French Doc Listen to Silence Ready for Postproduction

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-08-07

TBILISI: Mariam Chachia’s documentary Listen to Silence, a Georgian/French documentary focusing on a deaf-mute children’s school of Tbilisi, will go into postproduction in January 2016, after wrapping shooting in June…

Georgia Announces Call for International Coproduction Grants

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-08-06

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center (GNFC), has opened a grant call for international feature coproductions in the frame of the European Convention on Cinematographic Production.

David Vashadze, Head of Exports and Distribution at the Georgian National Film Center

Georgia Prepares to Launch Tax Incentives Scheme in 2016

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-07-24

TBILISI: Georgia will launch a tax rebate scheme in January 2016 with a 20 percent rebate of the qualifying expenses and an additional 2 percent for Georgian elements. Discussions about…

PRODUCTION: Georgian French Documentary The Things in Production

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-07-21

TBILISI: Nino Gogua is currently in production with The Things, a documentary about the relationship between the Georgian refugees of the Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008 and the things they took…

PRODUCTION: Georgian German Coproduction The Dazzling Light Of Sunset in Postproduction

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-07-17

TBILISI: Salomé Jashi is in postproduction with The Station, a 90-minute documentary about the sole journalist of Jikha TV, a two-man broadcasting station in a small Georgian town.

FNE KVIFF Coproduction Event Case Study: Corn Island

FNE Staff Georgia 2015-06-30

KARLOVY VARY: George Ovashvili's astonishing psychological drama is one of the three case studies presented at the FNE Coproduction Event on Wednesday 8 July in Karlovy Vary.

Successful Opening for Georgian/Estonian Coproduction in Greece

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-06-11

TBILISI: Zaza Urushadze’s Tangerines sold 3,880 tickets in Greece in its first week.

PRODUCTION: The Naked Wraps Shooting

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-06-09

TBILISI: Georgian director Nino Basilia’s debut feature, The Naked, which has just wrapped a 27 day shoot, is a social drama about a mother desperately trying to get to the…