’Scary Mother’ – Georgia’s bid for Oscars 2017
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Scary Mother, a film directed by Ana Urushadze, will be Georgia’s bid to compete in next year's prestigious Academy Awards.
Today a special committee involving cultural and film industry professionals announced Ana Urushadze’s maiden feature film Scary Mother will be nominated to compete for an Oscar in the Foreign Language category.
The same film will be nominated for the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
The nine-member jury of the Georgian National Film Centre had to choose a winner from four films by Georgian directors - My Happy Family (by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross, Hostages (by Rezo Gigineishvili), Scary Mother (by Ana Urushadze) and Luka (by Giorgi Barabadze).
Young filmmaker Ana Urushadze debuted with her feature at the Locarno International Film Festival earlier this month, where it was distinguished with the First Feature Award.
Its script follows a Georgian housewife who finally takes up her dream of writing, years after initially shelving the idea in favour of taking care of household work.
As the protagonist of the story begins reading her first published book to family members, she realises her fears of negative reception from relatives are becoming a reality.
The Academy Awards ceremony will honour the best films of 2017 at its 90th edition on March 4, 2018 in Los Angeles.
Four films by Georgian directors will be vying to represent the country’s bid for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the anniversary 90th edition of the ceremony next year.
Georgian filmmaker Rusudan Glurjidze's award-winning film House of Others has been named on a shortlist of global productions in contention for the most prestigious award of the Asia-Pacific region.
The film selected as Georgia's 2017 Oscar bid has collected another international prize after screening at a cinema festival in Kazakhstan's largest city last week.
A Georgian co-produced film to win an Oscar at next year’s awards has won another international prize after screening at Norway’s largest film festival.
Georgian debuting filmmaker Ana Urushadze’s feature Scary Mother has become the winner of El Gouna Film Festival. El Gouna Film Festival announced the winners of CineGouna Platform Awads which was held alongside the festival activities.
Georgian film director Ana Urushadze’s Scary Mother has been named among the ten of the best arthouse films of 2017. Having received various international awards, Urushadze’s film premiered in Georgian capital of Tbilisi in December.
A new fiction feature film by leading international documentary maker Rudolph Herzog will be shot in Georgia this March. "How to Sell a War” is a satire about war, politics, power, idealism and ‘fake news’.
Filmmaker Zaza Khalvashi’s Namme will be Georgia’s bid for the next Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film, after a jury team in Tbilisi announced the feature as winner of a national contest.