George Sikharulidze
Adjunct Instructor
George Sikharulidze was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. At 18, he moved to the United States to pursue his studies in New York. He received a B.S. in Media Studies from New York University and an M.F.A. in Film Directing from Columbia university.
His short films set in Georgia, include The Fish that Drowned (2014), which premiered at the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, Red Apples (2016) and A New Year (2018) which were both selected in the official competition at the Toronto International Film Festival and other festivals, winning multiple awards. His latest short Fatherland premiered in the official competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.
His first feature project Panopticon explores adolescent sexuality and Christian fundamentalism in the post-Soviet Georgia. The project has been selected at the Cinéfondation Residence of Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Torino Script Lab 2019. Apart from writing and directing, George is a professor of filmmaking at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Courses
Storytelling Strategies