Levan Koguashvili

Levan Koguashvili (Luka Levani) was born in Georgia in 1973. Having completed secondary school, he enrolled into the State Institute for Film and Theater in Tbilisi. However, the war broke out in Georgia a year later so he got a job as a reporter, and then as an editor on an independent TV station. After two years working for television, he enrolled in the All-Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, under supervision of acclaimed film director Marlen Khutsiyev.

After obtaining his degree, he worked in Tbilisi, directing commercials, TV shows and documentary films. In 2002, he enrolled on a postgraduate diploma course at the New York City Film School. His short fiction film Debt was shown competition programs of numerous festivals around the world, including Sundance and Tribeca. In 2008 he directed documentary film Women from Georgia. In the same year he started working on his first feature-length fiction film which made it to the competition program of Rotterdam International Film Festival. His own script for the film won the fiction film script competition of the Georgian National Film Center.