Eldar Mdinaradze, Georgian film director and artistic director of Imedi TV, passes away

Eldar Mdinaradze, the artistic director of TV company Imedi and acclaimed Georgian film director, has passed away. His death marks a profound loss for Georgian television and cinematography.

Imedi TV expresses deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.

Mdinaradze graduated from the Technological Faculty of the Subtropical Institute in Sokhumi in 1973, specializing as an engineer-technologist. In 1982, he completed his studies at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute’s Film Faculty, training in the workshops of Soso Chkhaidze and Revaz Khotivari.

He directed several documentary films based on his own scripts at various studios, including Our Enclosure, Report from SNO, The Grain of the Community, The Secret (about Mitrophane Lagidze, 1987), and Iorami (1988).

He was also active as a producer, having worked for Channel 9 and serving as the General Director of Mze TV (2003–2005). Mdinaradze produced around 70 television films, as well as the animated film Gavardnilebi (directed by D. Sikharulidze, 2008).

He received the Amirani Film Festival Prize for My Enclosure (1980) and the First All-Union Debut Film Festival Prize for Best Documentary (1986).

In October of this year, Mdinaradze was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Ozurgeti.