By Christopher Vourlias
Holy Electricity producer Nushi Film follows Locarno premiere with ambitious Slate M announcement
Georgian producer Tekla Machavariani was in Locarno this week for the world premiere of director Tato Kotetishvili's "Holy Electricity," which is screening in the Swiss festival's Filmmakers of the Present section. She unveiled a slate of new feature films from her Tbilisi-based production company Nushi Film.
These include the first Georgian-Japanese co-production, a film inspired by the brutal Georgian civil war of the early 1990s, and a film set in the crime-ridden streets of Tbilisi, where the hip-hop generation of the 2000s was active.
“When I started the company, my main goal was to work with my friends who inspired me. They taught me cinema,” said Machavariani, who founded Nushi Film in 2015. “For me, the most important thing is to make Georgian films with directors I grew up with. We start with short films and then slowly we go on a journey together.”
