KOMUNAMEDIA / KOMUNIKATORI

Code Liverpool

2011-10-04T02:52:00.001-07:00

A character driven documentary film with a working title “Code Liverpool” retraces the past and present of five Georgian band members who had traveled to Liverpool in the early 90s in an attempt to break into the British music scene with their unique Indie pop. Sergi Gvarjaladze - former member of the Genetic Code sets out to find the remaining band members, who are scattered all over the world, including in London, Tbilisi and New Orleans. His aim is to determine how the fateful trip to Liverpool had impacted each of their lives.

The documentary is due to be developed and coproduced with SunG8 Media from October 2011.

2011-08-18T06:03:00.000-07:00

TV version of the award for Georgian innovative pop culture "Electronauts" has been broadcast on Channel One of Georgian Public Broadcasting.

MyVideo.Ge

2011-05-07T10:57:00.001-07:00

This is the official list of the artists playing at this year’s Electronauts award ceremony:

Me and my monkey (The last performance)

Ekala

Rodriguez

Lady heroine

Irakli Shonia

Okinawa Lifestyle

Landmark

sTia

Exit

Electric appeal

Svansikh

Kung fu junkie

Electronauts / news alert

2011-05-06T05:54:00.001-07:00

Georgian internet radio portal Internetradio.ge and Electronauts (Annual Awards for Georgian Popculture) had reached an agreement on collaboration deal to promote this year’s award ceremony. A separate radio channel for all the nominated tracks has been set on the portal.

The online voting by the general public and by the international jury has already started. Live appearances of more then 10 bands are scheduled this year, the final list will be announced on 9th of May. The major prize (Electronaut 2010) has been created by the well known Georgian artist Mamuka Jafaridze.

This year's event will be held mid May, at the National Music Center and will be organized by the Electronauts Foundation, Komunamedia, Stromboli and Georgian Events.

The final TV version will be broadcast on Channel One of Georgian TV, TV PIK and Musicbox at the end of May.

rehearsal

2011-04-09T12:54:00.000-07:00

KOMUNAMEDIA produces for PIK.TV

2011-03-13T09:53:00.001-07:00

Komunamedia-Georgian media production company has signed a production deal with a new Russian language satellite TV channel – PIK.
The company will produce for the channel a weekly magazine about pop culture and lifestyle in the region.
POPMOPED consists of stories about the latest cultural events, interviews with representatives of the entertainment industry, music videos, as well as regular columns (charts, calendar).

The debutants - Nicole Shaduri and Sergey Voronin will host the program.
The project is developed and produced by well known Georgian media producer Sergi Gvarjaladze.

The first broadcast is scheduled for 19th March.

ПОПМОПЕД

С 19 марта, каждую субботу, в 20:00 по тбилисскому времени на канале ПИК, а также в онлайн-режиме (PIK.TV), выйдет новый телевизионный проект – еженедельный тележурнал о поп-культуре и стиле жизни – Попмопед.

Программа состоит из сюжетов о самых новых культурных проектах, интервью с представителями шоу-индустрии, музыкальных видео-клипов, а также регулярных рубрик (хит-парад, календарь). В конце каждой передачи зрителям даётся возможность выйграть оригинальный приз.

Проект спродюсирован «Коммунамедией», в качестве ведущих предстанут молодые дебютанты – Николь Щадури и Серги Воронин.

Автор и продюсер проекта - Серги Гварджаладзе.

Company Info

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The company was founded in 2000 by young professionals who had insider experience of the Georgian media, from working within it.

We work in the field of media production, media consulting and management, content production, advertising and PR; as well as producing independent programs for radio and TV.

Experience in…

TV (SHOWBIZ)

Geopop (1999-2002) was a popular showbiz weekly broadcast on Georgia’s two most popular TV channels, which spanned art, media, fashion and music.

TV (SOCIAL)

In the community sphere, the company produced a daily magazine-format TV program (2004-2005, Georgian 1^st channel)) called Vakansia (or Vacancies) where job-seekers where put in touch with employers. Vakansia.ge – the associated web site of the show is still helping people to find jobs or promote new vacancies.

The late-night TV show (1999-2002) Komunikatori (Communicator) also dispensed help and advice to callers of all ages.

RADIO

Muzorama (Fortuna, 2004 until the present day), is a weekly installment of what’s new globally on independent music labels (http://www.muzorama.com/ is the blog-based version with free and legal MP3 music and latest infos on international independent music). Music Hall (Fortuna +, 2004 until the present day) follows a similar format except that it features new directions in electronic music (http://www.dance.ge/ is the company's internet site for interested parties to keep abreast of electronic music via the Web).

FILMS

TV/film highlights have included ELEKTRONAVTEBI - documentary on electronic musical subculture (broadcast on national Georgian TV in November 2005). (Tbilisi international Film Festival)

“ONE TEAM” – documentary on Georgian National Football (Soccer) Team ( broadcast on national Georgian TV, Rustavi2, Mze, Imedi in August/September 2006).

2008 July-November- Tańcząca z Gruzją (Dancing with Georgia) Production of the reality travel documentary series for Polish TV (TVP2). Staring Katarzyna Pakosinska

PUBLIC SERVICE

For the 2003 (November) Georgian parliamentary elections, in conjunction with GORBI was commissioned to do an internet survey of Georgians abroad and their election candidates of choice (www.komuna.ge continues to keep Georgians living and studying abroad up to date with happenings in their homeland).

Prior to that, the company assisted ZDF (Channel 2 of German Public Broadcasting) in their coverage of the new government’s rise to power – the ‘Rose Revolution’ and the presidential elections in January 2008.

Since 2000 the company and GORBI has been monitoring all Tbilisi radio stations, from which Georgia’s weekly Top 20 is compiled.

From January 2007 the company has been providing production and PR services for the first Georgian contestant in the Eurovision song contest, Sopho Khalvashi.

PR/MEDIA CONSULTING

From 2002-2004, also founded and promoted and managed all public events hosted by Tbilisi’s Adjara Music Hall nightclub.

From November 2005 – November 2006 Media Consulting for Open Society- Georgia Foundations’ Project “The country still needs you”

From June 2006 – November 2006 Media Consulting for Georgian Football Federation’s Project “We are one team”

From June 2006 - PR Campaign / Consulting for AXIS (development company)

From January 2007 – PR, Consulting, Video Production for Georgian contestant (Sopho Khalvashi) to Euorovision song contest 2007

From July 2007 – PR Campaign / Consulting for the Department of Tourism & Resorts of Georgia

August 2007 - “Festival Georgia” – Festival and Awards Management Alliance / Founders

September 2007 - Festival “Svanset” in Svaneti region / Founders and organizers

Decmeber 2007, 2008 – “Electronaut” - Eelectronic music awards / founders and organizers / Production of TV version.

Sergi Gvarjaladze (the founder)

Sergi Gvarjaladze is a popular TV and radio presenter, film director, producer and musician in Georgia. As well as this, he has built up extensive commercial production experience, alongside a string of projects of a social nature. He has worked within the Georgian media for 20 years. He is a citizen of Germany, who has worked in the music industry in that country since

studying at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster (arts, media and PR) in 1994. He lives in, and divides his time between, both Georgia and Germany. Therefore, among Georgians, his experience in the local and western media is unrivalled.

His pioneering programs for the Georgian media include: Extremely Popular (Channel 1, 1990-91), award-winning Showbiz Digest (91-93, Channel 2), presenter/producer of Komunikatori (1999, Channel 1; 2000, TV Rustavi2); he has been producing and presenting radio programs since 1994 for just about every Georgian station. Social documentaries include: the Georgian Civil War (1991) with American cameraman Charly Steiner, and most recently – a Europe-based music commission for Georgian national television (Electronauts, 52 min on Georgian electronic music). In September 2005, as a respected and approachable public figure Open Society–Georgia invited him to be a consultant to the Foundation’s project “Assistance to the unemployed citizens of Georgia”.

Since January 2007 Sergi Gvarjaladze has been consulting the Georgian Department of Tourism and Resorts.

Further, he is involved in other projects of a socially beneficial and useful nature: he managed the project ‘Georgian Society for Performing and Reproduction Rights’ (1997) and was chairman of the Georgian Copyright Association (GECA).

He was one of the founders (2002) of “European House” – an independent NGO/Think Tank raising public awareness and policy research, with the goal of Georgia’s integration into the European Union.

Sergi’s music projects included well known Georgian bands and projects: Sakhli, Genetic Code, Georgian Dance Mpire, Bibi da Sergi. At the moment he works on two different music projects as Sir G (electronic music) and John Jolly (indie pop).

From 2006 to 2007 Sergi has been the editor in chief of the first Georgian music monthly magazine O3 (Ozone / www.ozoni.ge) . Since 2000 he is the founder and the editor in chief of blog based KOMUNA.GE and MUZORAMA.COM

His latest film Dancing with Georgia (Tańcząca z Gruzją) has been broadcasted on TVP2 (second channel of Polish television).

Location scouting for PopMoped

2011-02-06T05:37:00.001-08:00

Skateboard park

http://maps.google.de/maps?ll=41.731005,44.727931&z=16&t=h&hl=de

The bridge and the wall

http://www.google.com/mapmaker?hl=de&fll=41.701675,44.8051&fr=0.00032,0.000429&mpp=0.891712&gw=12&ll=41.701667,44.804896&spn=0.001402,0.003358&t=h&z=18

The wall / Nutsubidze plato

http://maps.google.de/maps?ll=41.731005,44.727931&z=16&t=h&hl=de

Garage Tashkent street:

http://www.google.com/mapmaker?hl=de&fll=41.701675,44.8051&fr=0.00032,0.000429&mpp=0.891712&gw=12&ll=41.701667,44.804896&spn=0.001402,0.003358&t=h&z=18

“ME AND MY MONKEY” live @ Electronauts

2010-10-07T02:19:00.001-07:00

Popkultura / Test shooting

2010-09-22T09:05:00.001-07:00

Watch “Electronauts” online

2010-09-09T07:14:00.001-07:00

The 52 minute documentary (with English subtitles) has been published and can be seen via our partner - online video provider MyVideo.Ge cinema

Written and directed by Sergi Gvarjaladze

Camera: Niko Tarielashvili

Editor: Giorgi Lomsadze

With a very old national culture of folk music, Georgia’s modern musicians have now started to create electronic music. Samplers of this kind of music first appeared here in the late 1980s. They began mostly with imitations of New Wave, New Romantics and the typical synthy sound of that time. The 90s then brought computers and the Internet and also the end of the Soviet Union (which Georgia was involved in). Since then, Georgian musicians have been using the opportunity to visit western countries. And so they bring new experiences and sounds home with them, as well as the technical know-how for making this kind of music.

A style has developed, which is characteristic to the whole genre of Georgian Electronic Music: bizarre and exotic western influences combined with elements of Soviet film scores and Georgian folk music. The latter contains a whole variety of Oriental as well as European musical rudiments. So what we now have is: Multicultural melodies meet the artificially designed sounds of electronic machines - strongly influenced by jazz and individually mixed by the various artists. One can say that this is a very special musical experience!

Still, electronic music remains very ‘underground’ in Georgia. Most of the artists are involved in other musical projects aside from electronic music and many of them are visual artists as well as musicians.

“Elektronavtebi” (Electronauts) tells the story of six Georgian musicians: the story of their musical careers, as well as their feelings and thoughts about the music industry and underground culture.

Nika Machaidze (aka Nikakoi/Erasti) was the first to reach global listeners. In 1999 Nika won the grand-prix at the Paris Electronic Music Festival and in 2002 he released his first album (as Nikakoi) on WMF records, Berlin. Today he also releases his music (as Erasti) on the Japanese label “Laboratory Instinct”; creates jingles for Georgian TV programs; produces videos; writes scripts -- and yet still doesn’t like the fuss of promo activities.

Tusja Beridze (TBA), Gogi Dzodzuashvili (Gogi.Ge.Org) and Nika Machaidze are part of GOSLAB, a multimedia collective of artists (as they call it). Gogi has just released his first album in Germany and the film crew accompanies him as he visits that country alongside his old friend and collaborator - Tusja. Both, Gogi and Tusja are signed to MAX ERNST, a famous German electronic label, and have just started getting an insight into the independent music scene.

The brothers Dima and Dada Dadiani, not only geographically but also musically, live on two different parts of the planet. Dima, an uncompromising artist of the Georgian electronic scene, still lives in Georgia; whereas his elder brother Dada (known as the pioneer of Georgian indie music) moved to London a decade ago. “My fascination with Dada’s presence in the band and his music disappeared when I realized that I wanted to work with absolutely different kinds of sounds”, says Dima, who describes his own music as repetitive and mechanical but not at all unpleasant. Dada, whose musical career started in a punk band, produces underground Londonese MCs and says that he chose dance-oriented music because he’s too old to make music for old people.

“Dance music is not the right media for protest. I’m dreaming of good times and pretty girls when I produce my music”, says Baju, another former Punk hero from the second biggest town in Georgia. The town, like the whole country, has serious power supply problems, but that doesn’t stop Baju from making electronic music. “Every time they cut the power off, I ride my bicycle to the nearest car repair shop and charge my batteries. That’s how Georgian electronic music works”, says Baju.

This documentary includes exclusive interviews and archive footage, intertwined with music videos and live performances by the six artists. The film was shot in April-June 2005 in Germany, the UK and Georgia.

Research Trip / Turkey/Capadocia II

2010-05-17T04:35:00.001-07:00

Research Trip / Turkey/Capadocia I

2010-05-17T03:43:00.001-07:00

Research Trip / Turkey/Capadocia

2010-05-15T09:31:00.001-07:00

Research Trip / Turkey/ Istanbul

2010-05-12T04:54:00.001-07:00

Electronauts 2009 on IMEDI TV soon

2010-05-09T12:35:00.000-07:00

TBA (Tusja Beridze) & Nikakoi (Nika Machaidze)

2010-05-07T15:35:00.001-07:00

TBA and NIKAKOI - “This isn't right, this isn't even wrong” (Performed live on Electronauts)

A very rare joint live performance of TBA and Nikakoi was filmed during the Electronauts 2009 – Award ceremony for innovative music, held 16th of April 2010 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The video version of the whole ceremony is coming soon on

produced by komunamedia

The Electronauts has been awarded.

2010-04-16T16:28:00.000-07:00

Electronauts - the third award ceremony for innovative music has been held in Georgia, Tbilisi (republic, not the state) by the media production company KOMUNAMEDIA. This time the winners had been chosen not only by the “online community” but also by the international jury (among others; Riley Reinhold (Triple R), Glen Nicholls , Andreas Rheise , Matthew Collin, Thorsten Lütz , Sascha Kösch) . The award ceremony took part in the newly established club GURU and was split in two parts - the award ceremony and the concert of well known artists like TBA ( aka Tusja Beridze), Nika Machaidze (Electronaut 2007) and new and emerging Georgian musicians. The event will be broadcasted on the net and on one of the major Georgian TV channels (at the end of May 2010). As a follow up a DVD release is planned.

Before revealing names of this year’s Electronauts, here is the brief introduction of the 10-year history of electronic music. History never rules out paradoxes and the history of Georgian electronic music is also paradoxical as the first generation of Georgian electronauts actually emerged during the electricity crisis. The first experiments with electronic music were done in the early 1990s (Dada Dadiani, Children’s Medicine, and the Georgian Dance Empire). At an electronic music festival held in Paris in 1999 Nika Machaidze (Nikakoi) won the grand prix. Nikakoi-the second generation Georgian Electronaut is alive and kicking as his partner from the Goslab collective TBA (aka Tusja Beridze), but this year brought some new names and surprisingly fresh music ideas.

The nominees and winners of Electronauts 2009 are (winners highlightedwith the star (*)):

Best Sponsor (supporting company):

Marlboro *

Red Bull

Best Radioshow:

Electronica (Guru FM) *

Musichall @ Fortune+

Electro-jazz projects @ BeatFM

Best Georgian Label:

Minibus*

Factory Recordings

Cumbo

Best Georgian Promoter :

Louder Events*

Fast Forward

GURU Group

Best Event

Djuma Soundsystem, Future Funk Squad & MC Mojo @ Pavilion* Dubfire @ Tbilisi Event Hall

Evil Nine @ Guru Club

Best Venue

Best Georgian DJ

Best Georgian Track:

Tusia Beridze / TBA

Autumn Tree - Aurora Borealis

Cobert- Everyone Can Speek African

Best Georgian Artist (Electronaut 2009)

LADO

Evol Waves

Tornike

Electronauts 2009

2010-03-05T13:32:00.001-08:00

This year the Electronauts’ award ceremony will be broadcasted on the net and on one of the major Georgian TV channels - IMEDI.
The winners in various nominations, like: “Georgian club of the year”, “Georgian event of the year”, “Georgian DJ of the year” etc. will be chosen by “online community” and the experts- representatives of Georgian media and showbiz.
This year we are adding a new nomination – “Georgian track of the year”
The winner in this nomination will be chosen by merging of the votes of the “online community” and the votes from international jury (50-50 correlation).

Here is the list of the international jury:

Pablo Daniel Sabetta (Jay West)
Country: Argentina
Occupation: Producer, DJ, Label Founder.
Involved in: Candy Dealers

Sarunas Karalius (DJ Karalius, Ryralio DJs)
Country: Lithuania
Occupation: Producer, DJ, Label Founder.
Involved in: Ryralio Records

Riley Reinhold (Triple R)
Country: Germany
Occupation: Producer, DJ, Magazine Founder.
Involved in: TraumSchallplatten, Spex, De:Bug

Glen Nicholls
Country: UK
Occupation: Producer, DJ, Mix Engineer
Involved in: En:Vision; Future Funk Squad

Andreas Rheise
Country: Germany
Occupation: Producer, DJ, Journalist
Involved in: KREIDLER, la! NEU, BadFrench, Spex, APRIL

Matthew Collin
Country: UK
Occupation: Journalist, Writer
Involved in: Books, Al Jazeera, Wired, Mojo, Time Out.

Thorsten Lütz (DJ Strobocop)
Country: Germany
Occupation: DJ, Producer, Journalist, Label Founder
Involved in: De:Bug, Karaoke Kalk.

Christoph Braun
Country: Germany
Occupation: Journalist
Involved in: Groove Magazine

Sascha Kösch (DJ Bleed)
Country: Germany
Occupation: DJ, Producer, Journalist
Involved in: De:Bug,

Michał Nogaś
Country: Poland
Occupation: Journalist
Involved in: Radio Trojk

DANCING WITH GEORGIA on POLONIA TV

2009-08-06T10:34:00.000-07:00

After the successful broadcast on Polish public channel (TVP2) 6 episodes of documentary Tańcząca z Gruzją (Dancing with Georgia) are due to rerun on Polish satellite channel TVP Polonia.

Starting 8. August, every Saturday at 23:55 (Central European Time)

TVP Polonia can be viewed globally on following satellites and TV services:

Optus D2
Astra 3A (Kabel Deutschland)
Astra 1KR
Hot Bird 9 (Cyfra +)
Eurobird 9A (KabelKiosk)
Eutelsat W3A

For more info and all the extras please feel free to visit Official blog of the series.

KOMUNAMEDIA

Electronauts 2008

2009-04-02T06:22:00.000-07:00

Electronauts 2008 - The award ceremony for the Georgian innovative music was organized by KOMUNAMEDIA and took place in Tbilisi, Georgia, 1 April 2008 in Club Guru. For for info, visit: www.electronauts.ge

Dancing with Georgia

2009-03-01T09:54:00.000-08:00

This docu-soap tells the story of Katarzyna Pakosińska’s journey to Georgia, a country and people that she’s been in love with since the late 80s. This small country on the crossroads of Europe and Asia has changed since the Soviet period and still attracts guests with the beauty of its nature and the traditional hospitality of Georgian people.

Kasia tells us an insider story which brings us off the beaten track, crossing the passes with Tushetian shepherds on the way to summer pasture, learning the fadoesque songs of Tushetian women or Adjarian dances with the world famous Georgian National Ballet. The series takes place in picturesque and mysterious Svaneti - the highest inhabited area in Europe, tells us the story of Kakheti region, which is considered to be the Cradle of Wine. Kasia introduces interesting people from Tbilisi, the multicultural capital with its famous sulphur baths and incredible mixture of oriental and occidental lifestyle.

The presenter is an active protagonist and not just an observer; she learns to cook Khinkali (Georgian version of Ravioli), rides horses and learns how Teka (tushetian carpets) is made.

This series (6X24min episodes) are accompanied with original music of Georgian contemporary artists and is produced in cinéma vérité style.

The project is also presented in the net, with a behind the scene and info blog (http://projektgruzja.blogspot.com/)

Presenter: Katarzyna Pakosińska

Director: Sergi Gvarjaladze

DOP: Alex Kvatashidze

Writers: Katarzyna Pakosińska and Sergi Gvarjaladze

Producer: Sergi Gvarjaladze

Original music by: Gvaji, Sergi Gvarjaladze, sTia, Bajoo

First Broadcasting: TVP2 February-March 2009

Cooproduction: TVP2 / KOMUNAMEDIA

Contact

2008-04-26T13:10:00.000-07:00

Paliashvili 36A

Tbilisi 1079

Georgia (Former USSR)

+995 32 915916

info@komunamedia.com

skype: komunamedia

Services

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We provide following services:

Research:
Location Scouting
Access to archives and libraries
Casting
Statistics and Opinion Research
Interviews

Local Permits And Authorizations:
Visa
Accreditation Services

Logistics, Transportation:
Rental Of Buses, Minivans, Trucks, Jeep ,etc
Driver
Vehicle Parking
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Accommodation:
Hotels
Apartments
Catering

Staff:
Stringer/Fixer
Cameramen, both Video and Film
Cuter
Interpreters: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian
Make Up
Set Design
Seamstresses
Bodyguards

Communication:
Telephone
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Cellular phones (local providers)
Internet
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Other services:
Media consulting
Acquisition
Event Managing