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Keti Machavariani graduated from the Faculty of Art of Tbilisi State University in 1995 before earning another degree in Film Direction at the State University of Film and Theatre’s faculty of Cinema (2002). Between 2005 and 2006 — with the help of a scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs — she undertook a practical course with the Italian State television broadcaster RAI. Back in Georgia, she directed short films like Mariami (2003), Glass Fragment (2003), or Let’s Make the First Step (2011). Also, she worked as a director and producer of television programs and as assistant director for several full-length feature films. She was involved as an executive producer in Street Days (2010) and Blind Dates (2012). Since 2008, Keti is teaching film studies at different universities in Tbilisi. Based on several supranational projects, Salt White (2011) was her feature debut that has traveled the international festival circuit. Her filmography also includes the documentary Eco Migrants’ (2012), Koro’s Movie (2014), and tv short - Georgia 1992 (2016).