Filmmaker Shorena Tevzadze in Cannes documentary industry meetings
A still from 'In the Sweltering Sun', a feature documentary by Shorena Tevzadze. Photo via Cannes Docs.
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Georgian director Shorena Tevzadze will have her second feature work presented at the next Docs-in-Progress production section of the Cannes Docs documentary festival later this month, where the filmmaker's In the Sweltering Sun is among four projects.
The in-production documentary will be pitched to cinema industry professionals within Showcase Circle Women, a section opened for women directors to present their work to producers, distributors and film institution representatives during the Cannes event.
The Docs-in-Progress section is an annual platform showcasing documentary projects in final phase of their production - mainly aimed at festival programmers and sales agents looking for new titles to add to their lists. The selected projects are pitched to industry professionals, with a rough cut also demonstrated.
????In the sweltering sun, directed and produced by Shorena Tevzadze (Diafilm) observes the life of one strange fortress, where the summer camp of teenage boys that master Martial Arts and the fortress together illustrate an absurd picture of nowadays Georgia (republic) pic.twitter.com/g0uGLiUBCl
— Marché du Film (@mdf_cannes) June 9, 2020
Tevzadze's documentary looks at a teenage camp in Georgia where a 13-year-old boy is at odds with a strict discipline and an agenda of patriotic events set up by organisers. The filmmaker's lens follow the conditioning aimed at participants of the camp as an "absurd illustration of a male-dominated contemporary Georgia".
Being produced at Georgian-based Diafilm studio, In the Sweltering Sun follows the director's 2017 documentary Didube, the Last Stop, screened at the Visions du Reel film festival and the Nyon International Film Festival. The work also went on to take the Focus Caucasus Competition principal prize at the CineDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival.
The Cannes Docs production section is set to run between June 22-26.
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