Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University, in collaboration with representatives from DocNomads conducted an international project (joint workshop) titled “DocNomads - TAFU - Beshumi Summer Film School”. The international project was carried out in Zemo Adjara (Beshumi village) from July 26 to August 6, 2019 within the framework of the Erasmus program. The project involved 2 tutors and 6 students from DocNomads, 1 tutor and 2 students from the Batumi Art Teaching University and 2 tutors and 6 students from TAFU.
The DOC NOMADS Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) in Documentary Filmmaking is a two-year, full time, European graduate program open to the world and delivered by a consortium of three universities in Portugal, Hungary and Belgium.
Combined groups were formed within the framework of the project. The students shot several short documentary films about the inhabitants, traditions, and customs of the high-mountainous region of Zemo Adjara and Shuamtoba public festival in Beshumi village.
In 2020, within the framework of the mentioned project, short film Thin Wall produced by Anna Barjadze (4th-year undergraduate student)), Mindia Kandelaki (MA student) of the Film and TV Faculty of Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University, and Daniel Shah, an MA student from DocNomads, was selected for the FIDBA - International Documentary Film Festival in Argentina (Buenos Aires), in the category of international documentary short films. The project was funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara.