Education
In 2003 Rusadze graduated at HFF as a film director with the documentary film Bandits.
In 2003 Rusadze graduated at HFF as a film director with the documentary film Bandits.
From 1989 to 1994, in his teenager years, Rusadze worked as anchorperson on Georgian television for a youth program In 1996 he became a student at College of Film and Television (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" HFF), in Potsdam, Germany. During his studies he worked in the news department of Deutsche Welle and – as an interpreter – on film festivals like Berlinale, Dok Leipzig or the East European Film Festival in Cottbus (Rusadze speaks Georgian, German, Russian and English).
In 2007 Rusadze founded the production company Zazarfilm in Tbilisi.
Zaza Rusadze contributed to films of Nika Machaidze, Ineke Smits, Dito Tsintsadze, Otar Ioseliani or Julia Loktev. From 2006 until 2007 Rusadze participated in the postgraduate program Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam, where he developed A Fold of my Blanket, a script for a forthcoming film.
In March 2010 he was granted the Nipkow scholarship in Berlin, to complete the screen-play for A Fold of my Blanket. In summer 2011 the shooting for his first fiction feature film begun.
Rusadze changed the title to February 2013 the film opened the Panorama"s main program of 63rd Berlinale.
In Summer 2014 it was released on Digital Video Disc. 2009 Cottbuser Discovery Award for Falten und Risse.
2009 Cottbuser Discovery Award for Falten und Risse 2009 scholarship Nipkow Programm Stipendium 2007 The Manitoba from the Embassy: Silver Astor Award for Best Script and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina"s award Best Film of the Festival at Festival Internacional de Cine de March del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina Audience"s Special Prize at Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival for Bandits 2004 Best International Documentary for Bandits, International Festival of Young Filmmakers, Miskolc, Hungary 2003 Nominated for Media Prize Babelsberg, for Bandits.
He is a member of the Georgian artists group Goslab.
