Mariam Chechia:

Mariam Chachia is a documentary film director and producer from Georgia. She is the founder of film production company OpyoDoc and co-founder of DOCA Documentary Association Georgia. Her first feature documentary, Listen to the Silence, premiered at DOK Leipzig 2016 and won the Golden Dove in the Next Masters Competition. Magic Mountain is Mariam’s second feature documentary which she produced and codirected with Nik Voigt. In December 2022, Mariam and her colleagues founded DOCA - Documentary Association Georgia, which aspires to contribute to the growth of a sustainable healthy documentary film industry in the country.

Nik Voigt:

Nik Voigt, a versatile filmmaker, began his career as a documentary photographer. He worked as a cinematographer, director, and editor across a range of film and media fields before finally finding his calling in documentary filmmaking in 2016. Since then, he has amassed an impressive portfolio of 9 DoP credits on documentary feature films, which have been shown on Arte and screened at numerous European festivals. Voigt’s directorial debut for a feature documentary is Magic Mountain.