Levan "Leo" Gabriadze ( ka, ლევან რევაზის ძე გაბრიაძე, ''Levan Revazis dze Gabriadze''; russian: Лева́н Рева́зович Габриа́дзе, ''Levan Revazovich Gabriadze''; born 16 November 1969) is a Georgian-Russian actor and film director. He is best known for directing the 2014 horror film ''

Unfriended ''Unfriended'' is a 2014 computer screen supernatural horror film directed by Levan Gabriadze and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. The first feature film to be entirely set on a computer screen, it is produced in the so-called Screenlife format. T ...

''.

Biography

Gabriadze was born in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...

, then part of the

Soviet Georgia The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; ka, საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, tr; russian: Грузинская Советская Соц� ...

. His father,

Revaz Gabriadze Revaz "Rezo" Gabriadze ( ka, რევაზ ��ეზოგაბრიაძე; 29 June 1936 – 6 June 2021) was a Georgian theatre and film director, playwright, writer, painter, and sculptor. His son, Levan Gabriadze, is also an actor and ...

, was an actor, writer and director. By age 12, Leo was already working in his father's productions. At age 17 he was invited to star in one of the main roles of the film ''

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''. He graduated from the workshop of

Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University Shota Rustaveli Theater and Georgia State Film University (TAFU) is one of the oldest universities in the Caucasus and Georgia. The Theater and Film University has dedicated solely to the visual and performing arts. The chief founder of the Unive ...

, specialized in acting and set design. He served in the

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, Air Defense Forces with the rank of private, post of a fireman. In 1990 he entered the University of California (

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

) (Los Angeles) in the Faculty of Design and Animation. In 2000 he moved to Moscow, where he became the advertising director of the film company

Bazelevs Bazelevs is a US-based production company founded by Hollywood director and producer Timur Bekmambetov. The company has been producing films such as '' Night Watch'', '' Day Watch'', '' Wanted'', ''The Darkest Hour'', '' Abraham Lincoln: Vampir ...

. In 2010 he made his first feature film ''

Lucky Trouble ''Lucky Trouble'' (russian: Выкрутасы, Vykrutasy) is a 2011 Russian comedy film, directorial debut of Levan Gabriadze. The film premiered on February 17, 2011, and grossed 12.86 million dollars by May 1, 2011. Plot Vyacheslav "Slava" Ko ...

'' which won the audience award "Golden Taiga" in the festival "Spirit of Fire" in

Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk ( rus, Ха́нты-Манси́йск, Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty language, Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi language, Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the admini ...

in February 2011. In the year 2014 he directed the horror film ''

''. In 2015, he made a film (″

″), which was released in conjunction with Universal. In 2017, he finished work on an animated film based on the stories of his father Rezo Gabriadze ″

Rezo Rezo is a German YouTuber who in 2019 ignited a fiery political debate with his video " Die Zerstörung der CDU". (Friedrich Ebert FoundationInfluencer als digitale Meinungsführer 2020-07-01 In it, he heavily criticized the then ruling grand ...

″. The film was released in May 2018.

Filmography

As actor

*'' Zneli dasatskisi'' (1990, as Actor) *''

'' (1986, as Gedevan Alexandrovich Alexidze - 'Fiddler') *''

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'' (1990)

As director

*''

'' (''Vykrutasy'', 2011) *''

Yolki 2 ''Yolki 2'' (russian: Ёлки 2, meaning ''Christmas Trees 2''), is 2011 Russian New Year comedy film directed by Dmitry Kiselyov and written by Timur Bekmambetov. The main roles are played by Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov, Alexey Petrenko and T ...

'' (2011, segment director, as Leo Gabriadze) *''

Yolki 3 ''Yolki 3'' (russian: Ёлки 3, meaning ''Christmas Trees 3''), Russian New Year comedy film. It is a continuation of the films Yolki (2010) and Yolki 2 (2011). The premiere took place on December 26, 2013.The release on DVD and Blu-ray took pl ...

'' (2013, segment director, as Leo Gabriadze) *''

'' (2014) *'' Rezo (film)'' (2017)

References

External links

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Levan Gabriadze
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