Georgia and China to launch joint cinema production
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Georgia and China are strengthening ties in the field of cinema industry, signing a memorandum to start joint production and support distribution of Georgian movies in China.
The memorandum was signed within the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival, where Georgian director’s Zaza Khalvashi’s film "Namme” was presented.
Thanks to the memorandum the Georgian National Film Center joined the platform of ‘Belt and Road’ together with 26 other signature countries.
The memorandum aims to promote Georgian-Chinese joint film production and bring more Georgian films into Chinese market.
During the festival Georgian National Film Center has started negotiations with China to launch first Georgian-Chinese cinema production. The film will be based on true story and its main topic will be how Chinese man brought tea culture to Georgia back in the beginning of 20th century.
So far distribution rights of two Georgian films ‘Mother’ and ‘Namme’ have been sold in China.
Meanwhile, the new Chinese TV series ‘The Mask’ is being filmed in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi and the Black Sea resort town of Batumi within the ‘Film in Georgia’ programme.
‘The Mask’ is the title of a new Chinese TV series that will be filmed in Georgia, announces the Ministry of Economy. The TV series will be filmed in Georgia within the ‘Film in Georgia’ program and will be shot by Georgian production company Arsen Production.
Georgia’s Economy Minister Dimitry Kumsishvili has participated in a joint People's Bank of China - International Monetary Fund high-level conference on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Georgia is invited as an "important guest” at an upcoming exhibition in Shanghai, China, announced Georgia’s Ministry of Economy Dimitry Kumsishvili today.
Free Trade Agreement between Georgia and China has come into play on January 1, 2018, making Georgia the first country in the region to have such a deal with China.
Georgian producer and film director Natia Nikoleishvili has been selected among six participants of this year's School of Film Agents, a cinema industry promotion project, and will introduce post-production opportunities of the Georgian film industry in Warsaw next month.
Well-known British TV presenter, journalist and writer Jeremy Clarkson is visiting Georgia to prepare an episode for a TV special about world dictators, this time with Stalin in the spotlight.
The international premiere of director Dito Tsintsadze’s latest work Inhale-Exhale will come at this month’s Shanghai International Festival, with another work of the filmmaker and fellow director Tinatin Kajrishvili to be screened at the event.
Georgian director Dito Tsintsadze’s latest work Inhale-Exhale has won the Shanghai International Film Festival. Debuting in the competition at the major regional festival, the film is Tsintsadze’s first work in two decades shot solely in Georgia, and follows a story by acclaimed Georgian author Nestan (Nene) Kvikinadze.
One of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies, NBCUniversal, has come to Georgia to study the country’s filming capacity and opportunities. Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze welcomed the company’s employees today.