Nana Jorjadze

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

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 1968-74, 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 which 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.

Filmography

As director

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

As Writer

• 27 dakarguli kotsna (2000) as Nana Djordjadze
• A Chef in Love (1996) as Nana Djordjadze
• About Georgia (1993)
• Château de la napoule (1993)
• Encounters (1993)
• Erosi (1984)
• Momekhmaret ialbuzze asvlashi (TV Movie) (1981)
• Atlant (1979)
• Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979)

As Costume designer

• Atlant (1979)
• Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979)

As Art department

• Mogzauroba Sopotshi (1979) as set designer

References

Notes

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

External links

• Nana Jorjadze at the Internet Movie Database
• (Georgian) Nana Djordjadze. Geocinema.Org.Ge, Retrieved on December 9, 2007.