School of Film Agents: Georgian producer to promote country’s industry in Warsaw
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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.
Nikoleishvili is one of film professionals from six different countries who will work during a week-long 6th edition of the project, bringing "individual visionary projects from the field of film-related cultural management", says a release from SOFA.
[SOFA is a] pan-European think tank [in which] industry experts provide [participants] with creative support and expertise to strengthen their role as agents to the film industry and as ambassadors to the cinema audience", organisers note.
Nikoleishvili will bring her Post Production Platform to the workshop seeking to promote the Georgian industry scene and professionals featured within it.
Her platform will present "highly trained technicians and artists, freelance specialists, and experienced companies" from the country while also allowing interested professionals to estimate their budgets and "build up a professional team".
The Georgian producer works on post production at Tbilisi-based digital creative agency Windfor's Communication and is a co-founder of Georgian Film Cluster, a project for promoting the Georgian film industry and connect producers from the country with their international counterparts.
Nikoleishvili will take part in the Warsaw workshop alongside scriptwriter and educator Agnieszka Kruk from Poland, industry manager Eva BrazdžionytÄ from Lithuania, film and theatre director Marat Parkhomovsky from Israel as well as festival coordinator Victoria Leshchenko from Ukraine and production assistant Róbert Vámos from Hungary.
The SOFA event aims to train cinema professionals in central and eastern Europe and develop film promotion projects. It is supported by Creative Europe, a European Commission program supporting culture and arts projects.
This year's workshop will run in Warsaw between August 26-31.
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