{"id":5478,"date":"2018-09-15T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T13:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/2018\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:55:06","slug":"artist-and-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/artist-and-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist and Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Production company: Vars-Studio, Zentropa Spain<br \/>\nGenre: Fairy tale<br \/>\nCountries: Georgia, Spain<br \/>\nEstimated run time (min): 90<br \/>\nDirectors: George Varsimashvili, Avtandil Varsimashvili<br \/>\nProducers: George Varsimashvili<br \/>\nStage of the project: Early development<br \/>\nEstimated date of the project: 25\/12\/2019<br \/>\nLooking for: Co-production, Distribution, Sales agents, Broadcasters, Festivals, Funding<br \/>\nTarget audience: 6 &#8211; 40<\/p>\n<h2>Logline<\/h2>\n<p>A frustrated actor works as a Santa Claus. One day he discovers a homeless boy, who is not able to speak. He gives him a shelter and his life starts to change.<\/p>\n<h2>About the director<\/h2>\n<p>George Varsimashvili is a Georgian writer and director born in Tbilisi in 1986. After graduating university in Georgia, he went to study film making in Paris 8 university, obtaining bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree)and ESRA Paris film school. During his studies he made a dozen of short films, which traveled on different film festivals. He shot his debut feature film \u201cParticulier \u00e0 Particulier\u201d (2012) in France. Although film didn\u2019t have any producer or distributor behind it and had a minor budget, equal of a student short film, it was still released theatrically in France, Russia and Georgia. This achievement brought him recognition in his homeland, where he is working on various film projects. In 2016 he made a film for the national television \u201cDzmebi Qalaqshi\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>About the production company<\/h2>\n<p>Vars-Studio is a film production company based in Tbilisi Georgia. Since its foundation in 2008, we made 8 feature films as a main producer and several other projects as a service company. Our 2009 film \u201cKvelaperi Kargad Ikneba\u201d broke Georgia\u2019s box office rating and is considered as commercially the most successful film since the independence in 1991.<\/p>\n<h2>Co-producer<\/h2>\n<p>Zentropa Spain is a subsidiary entity of Zentropa Denmark. It took part in most of Lars Von Trier&#8217;s movies as a co-producer. Company has made independently several films and has a history of being on major festivals, including Cannes official selections.<\/p>\n<h2>Project representative<\/h2>\n<p>George Varsimashvili<br \/>\nDirector, producer<br \/>\nVars-Studio<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:vars-studio@hotmail.com\">vars-studio@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production company: Vars-Studio, Zentropa Spain<br \/>\nGenre: Fairy tale<br \/>\nCountries: Georgia, Spain<br \/>\nEstimated run time (min): 90<br \/>\nDirectors: George Varsimashvili, Avtandil Varsimashvili<br \/>\nProducers: George Varsimashvili<br \/>\nStage of the project: Early development<br \/>\nEstimated date of the project: 25\/12\/2019<br \/>\nLooking for: Co-production, Distribution, Sales agents, Broadcasters, Festivals, Funding<br \/>\nTarget audience: 6 &#8211; 40<\/p>\nLogline\n<p>A frustrated actor works as a Santa Claus. One day he discovers a homeless boy, who is not able to speak. He gives him a shelter and his life starts to change.<\/p>\nAbout the director\n<p>George Varsimashvili is a Georgian writer and director born in Tbilisi in 1986. After graduating university in Georgia, he went to study film making in Paris 8 university, obtaining bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree)and ESRA Paris film school. During his studies he made a dozen of short films, which traveled on different film festivals. He shot his debut feature film \u201cParticulier \u00e0 Particulier\u201d (2012) in France. Although film didn\u2019t have any producer or distributor behind it and had a minor budget, equal of a student short film, it was still released theatrically in France, Russia and Georgia. This achievement brought him recognition in his homeland, where he is working on various film projects. In 2016 he made a film for the national television \u201cDzmebi Qalaqshi\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}