Tekla Machavariani is a producer and founder of the production company NUSHI FILM. Her recent producing work Holy Electricity by Tato Kotetishvili was awarded at Locarno Film Festival 2024. She graduated from the Caucasus University in 2008. Between 2013-2015 she was an international competition program coordinator atCinéDOC-Tbilisi Documentary Film Festival. She has also been working as a freelance line-producer for feature films and commercials. She gave lectures at Shota Rustaveli State University of Film and Theatre and is teaching Producing at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. In 2020 Tekla was part of EMERGING PRODUCERS 2020 cohort. She was part of Producers Network – Le Marche du film 2017, Dok Incubator 2017, SOFA-School Of Film Agents 2016, and more.