SUPPORTING ROLE

Director’s statement

The protagonist is an actor. Despite his rich filmography, the roles he played over the years had something in common, they fell under one archetype. He spent all his life in the guise of his character until he felt completely alienated. While working on his new part, the protagonist needs to get completely transformed. Paradoxically, by adopting the new role, he crashes his false personality. The Actor, turns into a very unappealing, bizarre character and the transformation process he goes through is very demanding and painful and his enormous effort seems to be in vain as the young female director's film turns out to be a failure. Still, his death in the end does not mean that he failed. On the contrary, I want viewers to perceive the actor's death as a beautiful and powerful climax. Ultimately, the most important thing is the inner process, the inner transformation. I want to give the audience of this film the opportunity to witness and see what often remains invisible to the eye.

Producer's statement

SUPPORTING ROLE is a psychological drama which discovers a path of metamorphosis through which the protagonist goes.
The urge of finding one’s inner self, the importance of different perspectives and sacred geometry of life, these are just some cornerstones of the story, projected through Ana Urushadze’s unique cinematic prism. She continues to shape her original handwriting, which she showed in her debut film SCARY MOTHER. Meanwhile SUPPORTING ROLE  is an ambitious try to create a complex plot with unconventional structure and such combination makes this project artistically so attractive. The agreement to co-produce the project was reached with Estonia’s ALLFILM, which was also a key collaborator for SCARY MOTHER, another example for a successful Georgian-Estonian co-production. SFF has massively influenced international acclaim of SCARY MOTHER and now we believe Cinelink platform will be the key to engage new co-producing partners and initiate further success of the film.