Konstantin Esadze

Konstantin (Mindia) Esadze was born into the family of the famous film director Rezo Esadze. By first profession, he is a philologist. Then he graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theater and Georgia State Film University, the workshop of the famous cinematographer Levan Paatashvili and at the same time completed the higher directing courses of his father, Rezo Esadze. 2003-2008 Konstantin (Mindia) Esadze worked as chief cameraman at one of the main television channels in Georgia, TV Imedi. Working on television gives him enormous practice, the ability to quickly make decisions and be mobilized for any task. There is a huge specific experience in filming various sports competitions and games. Later he synthesized his experience with filmmaking. All his films differ from each other in character and shooting style; He always takes into account the director's mood and philosophy, also can quickly adapt and find a way out of any situation. Konstantin (Mindia) Esadze made films with famous Georgian film directors such as Aleko Tsabadze, Levan Tutberidze, Zaza Urushadze, Kakha Kikabidze. He also made films with young directors, Mariam Khachvani, Anna Urushadze, Nick Sarkisov, Rusudan Chkonia, Tina Barkalaya. All these films won at various festivals such as Locarno, Warsaw, Sarajevo, London, Karlovy Vary, Asia Pacific Screen Award, Chicago, etc. Films, "Keep Smiling" by Rusudan Chkonia and "President" by well known Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, opened the Venice Film Festival. Special mention should be made of his work on the film "Breathe Freely" with the famous film director Sergey Bodrov, and also his work with film director Giga Agladze, on the film "Another Me", where the world famous David Lynch was the producer. Together with producer and his partner Vladimir Kacharava, he owns the "Caucasian Film Service" studio, which is one of the famous film production studios not only in Georgia, but also in the Caucasus as a whole. With their own film equipment and team, they develop and promote their own projects and co-productions.