Taming the Garden

Taming the Garden
Directed bySalomé Jashi[1]
Produced byVadim Jendreyko, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Salomé Jashi[1]
Release date
  • 2021 (2021)
CountriesSwitzerland, Germany, Georgia[2]

Taming the Garden is a 2021 documentary[1] film directed by Salomé Jashi, a former journalist.[3][1] It was nominated for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.[1]

Synopsis

The film documents the extreme lengths that Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia's former prime minister and the world's 349th[4] richest billionaire,[5] goes to acquire trees for the construction of the Shekvetili Dendrological Park, an arboretum on his estate on the coast of the Black Sea.[3][6][7]

Release

The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival .[8]

Reception

Critical response

Claire Armitstead said, "Taming the Garden is far from a balanced two-minute news report; it stands at the junction of documentary and myth".[9][10]

Awards and nominations

It was nominated for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.[1] It was nominated for the 34th European Film Awards.[11][12] It was nominated for the Audience Award, Insights at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival. It won in the international DOCU/WORLD Competition at DocuDays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival.[13][14]

Salomé Jashi

Salomé Jashi was born in 1981, in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from Tbilisi State University and the Caucasian School of Journalism and Media Management at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.[15] Later working as a reporter for a few years. In 2005, she received a scholarship from British Council, to study documentary filmmaking, at Royal Holloway, University of London.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Your Guide to All the Women-Helmed Projects at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival". Sundance Institute. Retrieved 20 January 2022. WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION...TAMING THE GARDEN Director Salomé Jashi; producers: Vadim Jendreyko, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Salomé Jashi; Switzerland/Germany/Georgia
  2. ^ "Taming the Garden". Vancouver International Film Festival. The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b Turner, Matt (10 February 2021). "Taming the Garden: Salomé Jashi's documentary poses a singular question — what is a tree really worth?". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  4. ^ Smith, Heather (18 March 2021). "Rich Man, Big Tree". Sierra Club. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Bidzina Ivanishvili". FORBES LISTS. Forbes. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2022. #589 Billionaires 2021
  6. ^ Nechepurenko, Ivan (17 January 2022). "A Love of Trees or a Display of Power? The Odd Park of an Oligarch". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Tree makes sea voyage for Georgia park project". BBC News. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  8. ^ Debruge, Peter (December 15, 2020). "Sundance Film Festival Lineup Features 38 First-Time Directors, Including Rebecca Hall and Robin Wright". Variety. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  9. ^ Armitstead, Claire (14 January 2022). "Root of the problem: the brutal creation of a billionaire's pleasure garden". the Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  10. ^ da Costa, Cassie (June 9, 2021). "SECOND NATURE: Salomé Jashi's Taming the Garden (2020)". artforum. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Documentary Selection". European Film Awards. Archived from the original on November 2, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  12. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (August 24, 2021). "European Film Awards Reveals First Wave Of Feature & Documentary Hopefuls For 2021". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  13. ^ "Taming the Garden and Ivan's Land win big at Docudays UA". Cineuropa. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Berlinale to Showcase Salomé Jashi's Documentary 'Taming the Garden'". Georgia Today. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Ekaterine Maghaldadze". Eurasia Foundation. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  16. ^ "Milano: Directors Jashi and Borecký on Documenting reality at 'Visioni dal Mondo' 2021". Lampoon Magazine. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
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