Levan Gabriadze
Levan Gabriadze | |
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 Levan Gabriadze in 2011 | |
| Born | 16 November 1969 |
| Citizenship | Georgian, Russian |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Levan "Leo" Gabriadze (Georgian: ლევან რევაზის ძე გაბრიაძე, Levan Revazis dze Gabriadze; Russian: Лева́н Рева́зович Габриа́дзе, Levan Revazovich Gabriadze; born 16 November 1969) is a Georgian-Russian actor and film director. He is best known for directing the 2014 horror film Unfriended.
Biography
Gabriadze was born in Tbilisi, then part of the Soviet Georgia. His father, Revaz Gabriadze, is an actor, writer and director. By age 12, Leo was already working in his father's productions.
At age 17 he was invited to star in one of the main roles of the film Kin-dza-dza!. He graduated from the workshop of Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University, specialized in acting and set design.[1]
He served in the Soviet Army, Air Defense Forces with the rank of private, post of a fireman.[2]
In 1990 he entered the University of California (UCLA) (Los Angeles) in the Faculty of Design and Animation. In 2000 he moved to Moscow, where he became the advertising director of the film company Bazelevs.[3]
In 2010 he made his first feature film Lucky Trouble which won the audience award "Golden Taiga" in the festival "Spirit of Fire" in Khanty-Mansiysk in February 2011.[4][5]
In the year 2014 he directed the horror film Unfriended.[6][7][8]
Filmography
As actor
- Zneli dasatskisi (1990, as Actor)
- Kin-dza-dza! (1986, as Gedevan Alexandrovich Alexidze - 'Fiddler')
- Pasport (1990)
As director
- Lucky Trouble (Vykrutasy, 2011)[9]
- Yolki 2 (2011, segment director, as Leo Gabriadze)
- Yolki 3 (2013, segment director, as Leo Gabriadze)
- Unfriended (2014)[10][11][12][13]
References
- ^ "Levan Gabriadze" (in Russian). Time Out.
- ^ "Lep Gabriadze" (in Russian). Sostav.ru.
- ^ "GABRIADZE Levan". kinoglaz.fr.
- ^ ""Сибирь…" отмечена "Золотой тайгой"" (in Russian). Ruskino.
- ^ "Фильм "Выкрутасы" дал старт "Российским дебютам" фестиваля "Дух огня"". RIA Novosti.
- ^ Dave McNary. "Universal Buys, Sets April Release for Blumhouse Horror-Thriller 'Cybernatural'". Variety.
- ^ Elbert Wyche. "Timur Bekmambetov, 'Unfriended'". Screen International.
- ^ Timur Bekmambetov. "In 'Unfriended,' horror comes to life online". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Milla Jovovich scheitert an russischen Abführmitteln". Die Welt. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ^ Miller, Ryan. "Levan Gabriadze's Cybernatural gets a title change". JoBlo. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
- ^ Loeffler, Shawn. "FANTASIA 2014: GENRE REDEFINED – AN INTERVIEW WITH CYBERNATURAL'S DIRECTOR, LEO GABRIADZE". Yell Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ Gingold, Michael. ""CYBERNATURAL" (Fantasia Movie Review)". Fangoria. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
- ^ Turek, Ryan. "Fantasia Capsule Reviews: Animosity, Closer to God, Cybernatural, Dys-". STYD. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
External links
- Levan Gabriadze at IMDb
- Levan Gabriadze at Georgian National Filmography
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