Levan Koguashvili

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Levan Koguashvili
Born
Levan Koguashvili

18 November 1973
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, screenwriter,
Years active2006 – present
Notable workBlind Dates (2013),

Levan Koguashvili (Georgian: ლევან კოღუაშვილი; March 18, 1973) is a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He studied in Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography after graduating school.[1][2]

Biography

Levan Koguashvili was born in 1973 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He began his studies at the State Institute of Film and Theatre in Tbilisi, and then worked as a journalist for independent television after civil war broke out in Georgia. He studied Film Directing at the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow between 1994 and 1999.

He Graduated from the Tisch School of Art's Graduate Film Program in New York City in 2006 and he made several short films and documentaries. His 2006 short film, The Debt, was an Official Selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and his documentary, Women from Georgia, was selected for the Panorama section of the 2009 Sarajevo Film Festival.

Levan lived in

Rotterdam International Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter observed that "Absurdity and despair, in equal measure, infuse the decaying urban landscape of the Tbilisi-set Street Days."[3]

His second feature Blind Dates, made in 2013, won the Special Jury Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2013 in "section New Horizons".

His third feature,

Tribeca Film Festival and FilmFestival Cottbus.[4]

Filmography

Feature

Documentary

References

  1. ^ "Levan Koguashvili | IFFR".
  2. ^ "Вечерняя Москва - Леван Когуашвили: «Мне нравится быть грузином и жить в Тбилиси»". Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
  3. ^ AP (14 October 2010). "Street Days — Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Levan Koguashvili's 'Brighton 4th' wins best picture at Asian World Film Festival". Agenda.ge. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.

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