Salomé Jashi was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1981. She first studied journalism and worked as a reporter for several years. In 2005, she was awarded a British Council scholarship to study documentary filmmaking at Royal Holloway, University of London. Jashi’s The Dazzling Light of Sunset (2016) was awarded the Main Prize at Visions du Réel’s Regard Neuf Competition, as well as at ZagrebDox, Jihlava IDFF, Valdivia IDFF and several other festivals. Jashi is the founder of two production companies, Sakdoc Film and Microcosmos, both producing documentaries and fiction of high artistic quality.