Giorgi Mrevlishvili holds an MFA in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, as well as an MSocSc and a BJ from Tbilisi State University. In 2010, his project Reflection was a finalist for the Berlin Today Award at the Berlinale Film Festival. The film was later selected for Vision du Réel’s Focus: Georgia program in 2015 and featured in a festival dedicated to Georgian cinema at Tokyo’s Iwanami Hall in 2018. His film Zurabi, made with Ateliers Varan, was named Best Georgian Documentary of 2007 at the Niamori Film Festival. His work Twelve Lessons received a Special Mention at the Tbilisi International Film Festival in 2019 and won the Best Documentary Award at Mediawave in 2022. Mrevlishvili’s book The Process, a collection of reflective essays on experimental approaches in documentary filmmaking, was published in 2021 by Intelekti Publishing. His most recent film, National Exams, was completed in 2024, and he is currently working on his experimental documentary The Sands of Silence.
