Nana Janelidze ( ka, ნანა ჯანელიძე, born 7 August 1955) is a Georgian film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Janelidze was born on 7 August 1955 in

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. She studied at

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under

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, graduating in 1981. Janelidze worked with Tengiz Abuladze on the 1984 film ''

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'' as screenwriter and music designer. The film won the

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at the

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, was nominated for a

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, and won the

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in six categories, including Best Screenplay. In 1994 she wrote and directed the film '' Iavnana'', which won her the State Prize of Georgia and Jakob Gogebashvili pedagogical prize. In 2000 Janelidze and actress Nanuka Khuskivadze founded the film production studio N&N. In 2008-2009 Janelidze managed a project in which N&N studios collaborated with the Association for Film Heritage Protection to restore the 1912 film '' Journey of Akaki Tsereteili to Racha-Lechkhumi'', Georgia's first documentary film. In 2011 Janelidze directed and co-wrote the film ''Will There Be a Theatre Up There?!'', starring Kakhi Kavsadze, based on the true life story of the Kavsadze family. The film won a

for Best Film of the CIS and Baltic States. In 2012 she began presenting a cinema program on Folk-Radio. From 2013 to 2016 she was the director of the Georgian National Film Centre. In 2019 a teaser was released of a biographical film on the life of Ukrainian poet

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka (, ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, ; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are ...

, directed by Janelidze, in a co-production between Georgia and Ukraine.

Filmography

Bibliography

*''Tengiz Abuladze – Reflections'' *''Rezo Chkheidze – On the High Road of Film''

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References

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