Film Business 2016 Speakers

Zurab MENTESHASHVILI

Education: Faculty of Film Acting of The Shota Rustaveli Georgian State University of Theater and Cinema.

Zurab is a founder and a creative director of the film and advertising company Mentesh Production. He is a film director with 8-year practical experience; as the film director and producer, he made three feature full-length family films, which set an attendance record in Georgia - Naughty kids and Naughty kids 2 (best commercial films in 2012 and 2015) and Unbearable Vacations (adventure comedy) 

Also, Zurab is a scriptwriter and the director of two short films (Metaception and Inventor Man), which succeeded at different international film festivals: 

Inventor Man – Special prize of Tbilisi Film Festival in 2012; 

Metaception48Film Festival in the US in 2015.

He is the director and co-scriptwriter of nine episodes of horror TV series Paradox 2. 

Mentesh Production produces commercial videos, cooperates with the most major producers and is a partner of Tbilisi Cinema Workshop Academy, which cares about cinematographic education in Georgia. The company created more than one hundred advertising, social and musical videos.