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‘Holy Electricity’ Producer Nushi Film Follows Locarno Premiere With Ambitious Slate Announcement (EXCLUSIVE)
The Tbilisi-based company founded by Tekla Machavariani unveiled three new projects, including the first co-production between Georgia and Japan.
Georgian producer Tekla Machavariani, in Locarno this week for the world premiere of director Tato Kotetishvili’s “Holy Electricity,” which plays in the Swiss fest’s Filmmakers of the Present section, has unveiled a slate of new features at her Tbilisi-based production company Nushi Film. The project reunites Nushi Film with Holland’s GoGoFilm, a co-producer on “Holy Electricity.” Pic follows the eponymous character, a 27-year-old basketball player who flees her war-torn hometown with her husband after an invasion. Set in the early 2000s in the crime-ridden streets of Tbilisi, “Milk & Honey” follows a high-schooler who navigates love, hip-hop, identity, family and friendship as he tries to find his place in a toxic masculine world.
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