EXCLUSIVE: Agnieszka Holland is among the many jurors for the second Eliso Awards, the Georgian movie awards launched final yr by the nation’s Nato Vachnadze Basis.
Holland will sit alongside Georgian director Elene Naveriani; Carlos Reygadas, who was final in Cannes with 2012 Competitors title Put up Tenebras Lux; director Dito Tsintsadze; producer Thomas Hakim; actress Angeliki Papoulia; and critic Salome Kikaleishvili.
The seven jurors will choose Georgian fiction and documentary options launched final yr, in six classes together with finest movie, finest director and finest appearing.
The awards will likely be offered at a ceremony on June 14, on the museum and home of Georgian appearing icon Vachnadze.
Naveriani gained the most effective directing prize ultimately yr’s inaugural Eliso awards for 2023 Administrators’ Fortnight title Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, with the movie’s lead actress Eka Chavleishvili taking the most effective appearing prize.
“The Eliso Awards offers us the chance to face collectively in solidarity, validate one another, and rejoice the completely different voices of filmmakers, as soon as once more stating that Georgian cinema is vibrant and alive,” stated Natalia Jugheli, director of the Basis and Vachnadze’s great-granddaughter.
”I need to specific my deepest gratitude to each single member, as their involvement is pivotal throughout these turbulent days. These days, taking part in this sort of occasion means supporting Georgian impartial cinema.”