Giorgi Ovashvili

[1] Giorgi Ovashvili is a graduate of the film department of the Georgian State University of Cinema and Theatre (1996) and the filmmaking department of the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Hollywood (2006).

Ovashvili made his debut as director with two short films, "Wagonnet" (1997) and "Eye Level" (2005).

His second feature, Corn Island, won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as well as the Grand Prix "Golden Vine" award at Kinoshock in 2014, and in 2015 took a top prize at the Trieste Film Festival[2] and was shortlisted for the Academy's best foreign-language film in 2015.

The film was premiered in the main competition of Karlovy Vary IFF in 2017.

In 2015, Ovashvili received a special award named "High Priest of Culture", along with director Zaza Urushadze, for contributing to and promoting Georgian cinema internationally.