Nino Benashvili is a writer and director from Tbilisi, Georgia, based in New York City.
She is the first Georgian woman to attend the NYU Tisch Graduate Film program, where she has been named a 2023 BAFTA BBC Diversity Scholar, and awarded the Maurice Kanbar Scholarship.

Born during the Georgian Civil War, Nino focused her first award-winning documentary short, CHILDREN OF NIKOZI (2021), on her childhood village, Nikozi, which was bombed during the Russo-Georgian War in 2008. The film was screened at festivals worldwide and is now available to stream on PBS.

Nino earned her B.A. from St. John’s College Annapolis where she double majored in philosophy and the history of science, with a double minor in classical studies and comparative literature. In addition to Georgian and English, Nino is fluent in German and Russian, with a working knowledge of Ancient Greek and French.