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GRANTS: Georgia Announces Debut Feature Grants

FNE Staff Georgia 2016-01-29

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center allotted 222,519 EUR/ 600,000 GEL for the production of two debut features in 2016.

Georgia Set to Encourage Film Industry

FNE Staff Georgia 2016-01-26

TBILISI: Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili will officially present the 'Film in Georgia' programme in Tbilisi on 26 January 2016, as the state is set to encourage the movie industry…

The Summer of Frozen Fountains by Vano Burduli

The Summer of Frozen Fountains Hits Georgian and Estonian Cinemas

FNE Staff Georgia 2016-01-21

TBILISI: The Summer of Frozen Fountains by Georgian director Vano Burduli will be released in Georgia and Estonia on 21 January 2016.

GRANTS: Georgia Announces Feature Production Grants

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2016-01-12

TBILISI: New projects by Levan Koghuashvili, Rusudan Chkonia and George Ovashvili received production support from the Georgian National Film Center beginning of 2016.

Georgia Launches Cash Rebate System

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-12-18

TBILISI: Georgia officially launched its tax incentives programme which will go into operation at the beginning of 2016. It will offer a 20% cash rebate of qualified expenditure with an…

FNE Country Report 2015: Georgia

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-12-15

Georgia faced two important events in 2015 - it joined the Creative Europe Programme at the end of February 2015 and introduced its first tax rebate law, which will start…

GRANTS: Georgia Announces Project Development Grants

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-12-14

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Center will allot project development grants totaling 28,583 EUR / 75,000 GEL to five features films. They include new projects by George Ovashvili, Rusudan Chkonia and…

Georgia Announces Script Development Grants

Iulia Blaga Georgia 2015-12-11

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Centre will grant 46,229 EUR /120,000 GEL for the script development of eight feature films dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

FESTIVALS: Motherland Wins Tbilisi Festival

FNE Staff Georgia 2015-12-08

TBILISI: Motherland directed by Senem Tüzen won the Golden Prometheus for Best Film at the 16th Tbilisi International Film Festival which concluded on 6 December 2015. Solomon directed by Zaza…

FESTIVALS: Tbilisi Festival Opens with Moira

FNE Staff Georgia 2015-11-30

TBILISI: The 16th Tbilisi International Film Festival will open on 30 November 2015 with a premiere of the Georgian film by Levan Tutberidze Moira produced by Cinetech Film. The festival…

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.