Basic Facts
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Year of Foundation:
1972
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Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:
2014
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Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:
2011
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Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:
National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement
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Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):
Prof. Giorgi Shаlуtashvili
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Address:
Tbilisi, Rustaveli Avenue 19,0108
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Country:
Georgia
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Website:
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Points of Contact
CILECT Contact Person:Rector: Prof. Giorgi ShаlуtashviliTelephone:+995 32 29 99 411Mobile:+995 57 75 41 777Email:gshalutashvili@tafu.edu.geCILECT Contact Person:Dean Film Faculty: Prof. David JanelidzeTelephone:+995 32 96 01 46Mobile:+995 577 94 70 17Email:djanelidze@tafu.edu.ge
Mission & Strategy
The Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University trains actors of drama and film, musical theatre, puppetry, marionettes and pantomime, directors of drama, film and television, cinematographers, theatre and film critics, art historians, specialists of television and other media, choreographers, managers of tourism and experts of cultural – educational sector.
Our students have gained international success and highest awards at various film and theatre festivals and competitions.
The Univercity has D. Aleksidze theatre, scientific library, laboratories, educational scientific institute, which prepares encyclopedias of Georgian theatre and cinema.
The Univercity has faculties of Drama, Film and Television, Humanities, Social sciences and Management and Georgian Folk Music and Dance, where over a thousand students obtain Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees.
The University played a huge role in training specialists of theatre and cinema for the entire Caucasus Region. The University brought up specialists for Russian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Abkhazian, Ossian, Ingush, Chechen and other theatres. A number of now famous theatres were founded on basis of training and diploma performances of the University (such as Cinema Actors Theatre, Meskhetian Theatre, Theatre Metekhi, Akhmeteli Theatre, Theatre of Saingilo, Pantomime Theatre, etc.).
The University maintains creative and scientific relations with the universities in different countries.
The University traditionally trains specialists for special purpose which is a great contribution to the development of Georgian Regional Theatres.
The University publishes newspaper “Duruji.” In 2005 – 2009 publishing house issued newspaper “Culture”, which was a joint publication of three art universities. The Publishing “Centaur” publishes text books, manuals, scientific works and monographs written by professors of the University and also the journal “Art Science Studies.”
Degree Areas
Audiovisual Director
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Degree Awarded
BA
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Full-Time
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Film director
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BA
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Documentary film director
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BA
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TV director
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BA
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Animated film director
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BA
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Sound director
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BA
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Film - TV Cinematographer
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BA
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Audiovisual Director (analysis of theory and practice)
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Degree Awarded
MA
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Director of Feature Film (analysis of theory and practice)
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MA
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Director of Documentary Film (analysis of theory and practice)
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Degree Awarded
MA
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Director of TV(analysis of theory and practice)
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MA
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Sound Director(analysis of theory and practice)
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Degree Awarded
MA
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Film and TV Cinematographer (analysis of theory and practice)
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MA
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Audiovisual Director - Film Director
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Degree Awarded
PhD
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Key Teaching Staff
Avtandil Varsimashvili
Alexandre Kantaria
Ucha Dvalishvili
Giorgi Gersamia
Merab Urushadze
Vazha Zubashvili
Giorgi Chartolani
Ketevan Trapaidze
Art Sciences, Media and Management
Successful Graduates
Merab Ninidze
- stage actor
- film actor
Merab Ninidze is a Georgian actor. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for the roles of Walter Redlich in Nowhere in Africa and Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier.
Kakhi Kavsadze
- actor
Kakhi Kavsadze was a Georgian and Soviet film, television and stage actor.
Nino Haratischwili
- director
- theatrical director
- writer
- playwright
Nino Haratischwili is a Georgia born German novelist, playwright, and theater director. She has received numerous awards, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, and the Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft.
Lasha Bugadze
- writer
- playwright
Lasha Bugadze is a Georgian novelist and playwright. Among his noteworthy plays are Shocked Tatyana, which satirizes war heroism, and Soldier, Love, Bodyguard and the President.
Dito Tsintsadze
- film director
- actor
- screenwriter
- composer
Dito Tsintsadze is a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He has directed thirteen films since 1988. His film Lost Killers was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. In 2007 he was a member of the jury at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival. Starting from the year 1996 he lives and works in Berlin.