Keti Machavariani
director, producer
Keti Machavariani in 1995 she graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, and in the same year she was enrolled to the postgraduate program of Shota Rustaveli State University in Tbilisi, In 2002 she graduated from the Film Directing Faculty of the same university. She was on internship program at RAI TV in 2005-2006 with support from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After shooting several short films, the premiere of Keti Machavariani's feature film "White as Salt" took place at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2011. The film has participated in many film festival programs and won several prizes. In 2016, Keti was commissioned by the Public Broadcaster to shoot a short film “Georgia 1992”. In 2020, Keti completed the work on the documentary film "Mziuri" (author of the idea Tsisana Khundadze), which was premiered at Canadian doc film festival “HOT DOCS”, where it received Jury Special Mention.The film has been shown at numerous international film festivals. Keti Machavariani is actively involved in pedagogical activity and has been working as a film and TV producer for many years.
Filmography
2021 MZIURI - 67 min - Documentary - Sunny Films, Terra Incognita Films
2016 GEORGIA 1992 - 34 min - Georgian Public Broadcaster
2011 SALT WHITE - 80min - fiction, 35mm
2003 GLASS FRAGMENT - 13 min
2003 MARIAMI - 19 min - fiction