"Creative Europe" finances Georgian theatre and film festival
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Two Georgian cultural organisations have been awarded financial support within a Europe-wide program for creative projects after winning two separate contests.
Tbilisi's Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre and CineDOC-Tbilisi Documentary Film Festival will have the financial backing of the Creative Europe program after they were announced among the winners of cultural contests within the project.
A press conference today led by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia revealed the results of financing for the two organisations.
Creative Europe announced the Marjanishvili Theatre as winner of Creative Europe's Culture sub-program contest after their project European Theatre Laboratory: Theatre Meets Digital, presented in partnership with five other European venues, won the category.
Tbilisi's Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre won the contest alongside its partner theatres from Europe. Photo from the Marjanishvili Theatre/Facebook.
The project will bring together theatres and scientists in a bid to enrich theatre language and transfer it to digital space via new technology.
The two-year project will now enjoy a budget of €200,000 thanks to the Creative Europe funding.
The Marjanishvili Theatre developed the project as part of the European Theatre Convention (ETC), a collaboration that includes the Theatre de la Manufacture from France and Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe from Germany.
The Tbilisi venue joined the ETC - a partnership of more than 40 leading European theatres - in April 2015.
CineDOC-Tbilisi became the first Georgian film festival to be awarded the Creative Europe financing within the contest. Photo from CineDOC-Tbilisi/Facebook.
Meanwhile, the Media sub-program contest of Creative Europe also selected a Georgian organisation as its winner.
The CineDOC-Tbilisi Documentary Film Festival became the first Georgian film festival to be selected in the Creative Europe program after it was awarded a €27,000 financing prize for development.
The category featured 108 initial submissions but only 23 winners, including established cinema occasions such as the Sarajevo Film Festival and Dok Leipzig.
Georgia became the first state from the European Union (EU)'s Eastern Partnership initiative to join Creative Europe in February 2015.
Membership of the program allows Georgian cultural organisations to submit their creative projects within Creative Europe's Culture and Media sub-programs and receive financing for implementing their ideas in cooperation with European partners.
Creative Europe was established in 2014 as a six-year EU program to support cultural and creative projects across Europe. The program will use its €1.46 billion budget to finance winning projects until 2020.
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