Levan Koguashvili,born in 1973 in Tbilisi, Georgia/USSR, studied Film Production at the Georgian State University of Theatre and Cinema in Tbilisi. One year after he began his studies, war broke out in Georgia, and so he began to work as a journalist for the first independent Georgian television station. Between 1995 and 1999, Levan studied Film Directing at the Russian State Institute of Film (VGIK) in Moscow. In 2007, he graduated from the Tisch School of the Art’s Graduate Film Program at New York University.