Nana Jorjadze

Nana Jorjadze (Georgian: ნანა ჯორჯაძე; born 24 August 1948) is an Academy Award nominated film director, scriptwriter and actress.[1]

Nana Jorjadze
ნანა ჯორჯაძე
Nana Jorjadze
Born (1948-08-24) 24 August 1948
Tbilisi, USSR (now Georgia)
NationalityGeorgian
Alma materTbilisi State Academy of Arts
Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, actor
Years active1978 - current
FamilyMikhail Kvirikadze

Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school (1966), and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts (1972). Having worked as an architect in the years 1968 to 1974, she enrolled in the Tbilisi State Theatre Institute which she completed in 1980. She debuted as an actress with the film Some Interviews on Personal Matters in 1977; and as a director with A Journey to Sopot in 1979. Her 1987 work Robinsonada or My English Grandfather was a breakthrough that won her the Caméra d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival,[2] and both critical and popular acclaim. She moved to France early in the 1990s and directed several films including A Chef in Love (1996) which became the first, and so far the only, Georgian film to be nominated for the Academy Award.[3][4]

She is married to fellow Georgian writer and director Irakli Kvirikadze, who previously went by the name Irakli Mikhailovich Kvirikadze.

Filmography
Nana Jorjadze 2021 in Zürich.
As director
  • Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979)
  • Atlant (1979)
  • Momekhmaret ialbuzze asvlashi (TV Movie) (1981)
  • Erosi (1984)
  • Robinsonada or My English Grandfather (1987)
  • Encounters (1993)
  • Château de la napoule (1993)
  • About Georgia (1993)
  • A Chef in Love (1996) as Nana Djordjadze
  • 27 Missing Kisses (2000) as Nana Djordjadze
  • Tolko ty... (TV Mini-Series) (2004)
  • The Rainbowmaker (2008)
  • Moskva, ya lyublyu tebya! (2010)
  • My Mermaid, My Lorelei (2013)
  • Prime Meridian of Wine Géorgie (2016) (Documentary)
As writer
  • Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979)
  • Atlant (1979)
  • Momekhmaret ialbuzze asvlashi (TV Movie) (1981)
  • Erosi (1984)
  • Encounters (1993)
  • Château de la napoule (1993)
  • About Georgia (1993)
  • A Chef in Love (1996) as Nana Djordjadze
  • 27 dakarguli kotsna (2000) as Nana Djordjadze
As costume designer
  • Atlant (1979)
  • Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979)
As set designer
  • Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979)

References
  1. "Georgian filmmaker honoured for contribution to world cinema". Agenda. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  2. "Festival de Cannes: Robinsonada or My English Grandfather". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  3. "A Chef in Love (1996) Nana Jorjadze 5th July 2012". Britishgeorgiansociety.org. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  4. "საქართველოს კინემატოგრაფისტთა შემოქმედებითი კავშირის წევრი". Geocinema.ge. Retrieved 2 May 2016.

Notes
  • Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007). Jorjadze, Nana. Dictionary of Georgian National Dictionary. Retrieved on December 9, 2007.
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