Filmmaker Rusudan Glurjidze honoured with global award

Georgia's 2017 Oscar bid from award-winning film director Rusudan Glurjidze has been honoured with a prestigious prize from the International Press Academy (IPA).

An announcement about the film winning its latest award was made in Los Angeles, United States (US) on Monday.

Glurjidze's film House of Others won the IPA's Best First Feature Award, which continues the international success of the film since its release earlier this year.

The IPA is a global association with members who represent domestic and foreign markets in print, television, radio, blogs, and other content platforms.

See the trailer for Rusudan Glurjidze's feature 'House of Others' below:

Each year the Academy's Satellite Awards reveal best of the entertainment industry including in film, television and new media. 

Additionally, experts of the IPA honour selected productions and their creators with special achievement awards including the Best First Feature prize, which was this year awarded to Glurjidze.

The other special awards included Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry, Auteur Award for creative vision and unique artistry and Humanitarian Award.

The three special prizes were awarded to well-known industry figures including British actor Sir Patrick Stewart and American actor and director Edward James Olmos.

Since its release earlier this year, House of Others has won a number of global awards including triumphing the East of the West competition section of the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czech Republic in July.

The film was praised by festival organisers it for its visual qualities that "hold their ground with those of [famed late Soviet director Andrei] Tarkovsky and [Russian filmmaker Andrey] Zvyagintsev, confirming the unprecedented rise of Georgian cinema."

The work was also selected as Georgia's bid for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Narrating a story of two families that survive the destructive Abkhazia war in the early 1990s, the film shows civilians on the winning side being haunted by memories as they are given houses cleared of their expelled owners.

See the full list of recipients of the IPA special achievement awards and nominees for the association's Satellite Awards here.