Movement

Movement is a digital storytelling platform using cinematographic means to tell stories from Georgia and from around the world. It was founded in 2017 in Tbilisi, Georgia, by former TV journalists Ekaterine Kadagishvili and Anano Bakuradze, who had discovered that the mainstream media provided only superficial coverage, primarily of political topics.

They founded Movement to publish stories focused on human beings and events around them, which were missing from TV broadcasters. Striving to uncover social-cultural topics beyond certain boundaries, Movement narrates stories about people using contemporary media technologies and the unconventional movement of a camera.

Its mission is to bring social impact through storytelling, and to influence and change the attitudes of its audience towards various topics. While the media outlet mostly does storytelling through short films centred on humans as the main heroes, its second media platform Movement EDU creates animated videos on topics such as science, literature, culture, democracy, and human rights, aiming to raise awareness and educate youth on specific issues.

Over the years, the team has worked on numerous special projects outside Georgia, reporting stories from around the world. To further diversify the content and broaden the horizons of its audience, in September 2022, Movement opened its second bureau in Paris.

Movement also offers storytelling services to small and large companies through its production studio to diversify its income sources and support its work.

In 2019, Movement won the US Embassy in Georgia Storytelling for Social Impact contest and spent two weeks at the School of Cinematic Arts in LA, University of Southern California. As a result of this study fellowship, the organisation launched its Movement EDU platform.