Zaza Urushadze

Zaza Urushadze Georgian ???? ??????? October 30 1965 December 7 2019 was a Georgian film director screenwriter and producer He graduated in 1988 from the directing department of the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgian State University From 2002 to 2004 he was the director of the Georgian National Film Centre Zazas fulllength debut film Here Comes the Dawn 1998 was very successful and participated in many international film festivals It was Georgias official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards but did not receive a nomination Zazas second fulllength film Three Houses was finished in 2008 It participated in international film festivals including Montreal World Film Festival In December 2009 Zaza Urushadzes film opened the program of Georgian Filmweek in Tallinn Estonia During the meeting with Artur Veeber and Tatjana Mühlbeier the idea to write a script for Tangerines was born Tangerines the first EstonianGeorgian coproduction was finished in 2013 It became one of the most successful and worldwide acclaimed films in Georgian film history The story takes place during the war in Georgia where in the Apkhazeti region in 1990 an Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines When a wounded man is left at his door Ivo has no choice but to take him in The film won awards in several international festivals including the Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film and an Audience Award for best film at the Warsaw International Film Festival At the International Film Festival MannheimHeidelberg 2013 Tangerines won a special prize the Audience Prize for Best Feature Film and the Cinema Owners Prize and at the Fajr International Film Festival the film was acknowledged as the best film with the best scriptwriting It was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards and was among the five nominated films at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards for best foreignlanguage film Three years later in 2016 Zaza Urushadze began producing his new film The Confession working title The Monk The film was produced by Ivo Felt of Estoniabased Allfilm and Zaza Urushadzes company Cinema24 and was funded with 700000 The Confession tells the story of a film directorturnedpriest whose life in a small mountain village begins to unravel when he meets a local music teacher who is hiding a dark secret The director said I cant say The Monk will be similar to Tangerines it will be lighter and maybe even more sensitive but it will be hopefully very entertaining Filming took place in Kakheti Georgia in July and August with a cast including Dmitri Tatishvili Joseph Khvedelidze and Sophia Sebiskveradze The film premiered in early 2017 Zaza Urushadze died of a heart attack on 7 December 2019 Description above from the Wikipedia article Zaza Urushadze licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia