Ana Urushadze

Jury Member

The talented filmmaker Ana Urushadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1990. She graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Georgia State Film University in 2013. Daughter of acclaimed filmmaker Zaza Urushadze, she started making short films when she was a student. Her notable shorts include Ideas (2010) and One Man Loved Me (2012). The much acclaimed Scary Mother (2017, GFF) is her debut feature and the winner of the Golden Leopard Award for Best First Feature at the Locarno Film Festival and the El Gouna Golden Star for Best Feature Narrative. The film went on to win several other international awards at festivals in Mumbai (Special Mention), San Francisco (Golden Gate, Best New Director), Gijón (Best Director), Sarajevo (Cineuropa Award and Heart of Sarajevo) and The Asia Pacific Screen Award (Best Actress and Jury Grand Prize), to name a few. Scary Mother was selected as Georgia’s Official Submission for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

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