Nino Benashvili is an award-winning writer and director from Tbilisi, Sakartvelo, currently based between Tbilisi and New York City. She attended NYU Tisch Graduate Film Program and is a 2023 BAFTA US BBC Diversity Scholar and recipient of the Maurice Kanbar Award. Her work spans fiction and documentary.

Her debut narrative short Where Time Stood Still has screened at San Sebastián, Tallinn Black Nights, Palm Springs ShortFest, Santa Barbara, EnergaCamerimage and many more. The film also was NYU nominee for BAFTA student awards and Jagat Murari Directing award. Her debut documentary short Children Of Nikozi (2021) won Bronze Remi award at WorldFest Houston and was acquired by PBS.

Nino earned her B.A. from St. John’s College Annapolis, where she double majored in Philosophy and the History of Math and Science, with minors in Classical Studies and Comparative Literature. She is fluent in Georgian, English, German, and Russian, and has a working knowledge of Ancient Greek and French.