Chai Khana Print Book
Chai Khana Print Book

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Nino Orjonikidze

Nino Orjonikidze  is a documentary filmmaker, working at Artefact Production, a production company she established 10 years ago. She graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1994 and Goldsmiths, University of London in 2004. She has a background in TV journalism - working for major TV Stations in Georgia and freelancing with different international projects and companies. Nino teaches documentary & experimental filmmaking at GIPA (Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management) and works as a mentor for Chai Khana, supervising short documentary film production across the South Caucasus.

Filmography:

English Teacher - (winner of Focus Caucasus – Cinedoc 2013),

Altzaney -  nominated for prizes at a number of international festivals including DOK Leipzig, Krakow Film Festival and others (best documentary prize at Lessinia FF 2010),

The Bridge - (Vision Du Reel 2015)

A Platform - (to be released in 2018). 

Author's stories
01.17.2017

A one-day ride on an old two-wagon train through the Imereti gorge reveals the hard reality of everyday life and death in central Georgia.   Locals call it ‘Masterovoi’ as carrying railway workers is its main function - a grand-sounding name for the ancient-looking train that crosses the Imereti Gorge from Khashuri to Zestaponi, in central Georgia. The two wagons are the only means of transport for people in the area, the train tracks the umbilical cord with the rest of the world. The train rattles away twice a day while everything in the gorge seems to stand still, motionless.

On The Move

The Little Old Train That Could

Nino Orjonikidze ,

Vano Arsenishvili