Independent Film Project is also engaged in educational and cultural initiatives that reflect our commitment to increase public knowledge and understanding of Georgian arts and culture. Studio is on the Board of Trustees of GEORGIAN THEATRE AND FILM MUSEUM.

Between 2007 and 2011 Independent Film Project was actively engaged in the urgent preservation of the “Golden Fund” of Georgian cinema of the 1920 and ’30s as well as films of later Soviet period.

Over a dozen 35mm film copies have been restored and digitised to date by the studio. “Salt of Svaneti” (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov), “Pirosmani” (dir. George Shengelaya), “Keto and Kote” (dir. Vakhtang Tabliashvili, Shalva Gedevanishvili), “My Grandmother” (dir. Kote Mikaberidze) among them, and more.

In collaboration with The Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Music, Cinema and Choreography we produce and publish nonfiction writing about key figures of Georgian cinema and theatre: Petre Otskheli, Irina Shtenberg, Joseph Sumbatishvili, David Kakabadze, and others.