Tim is originally from the Republic of Georgia, where he lived all his childhood before moving to Moscow, Russia, to study Business. After graduating with Finance major, Tim moved to New Zealand and spent the next five years working in various accounting and finance roles. But eventually the childhood dream to make movies took over. Since then, he has graduated from South Seas Film and Television School with a Scriptwriting and Directing major and has written, directed and produced seven short films, including ‘Personal Ad’ which was funded by Creative NZ.

Recently he co-wrote and directed 'Roy' and ‘Russian Dolls’. Both films are now doing a festival circuit.

He also ran a small production company for six years, directing and producing promotional and educational videos. And, he has worked in theatre (as a director) and taught filmmaking to young adults.

In the last five years Tim has focused on working towards making his first feature film 'Crackheads', due for release in 2013. He has written over ten feature film screenplays, one of which 'Tamada' is currently in development with the NZ Film Commission.

Tim lives and breathes film; his biggest challenge in life is to find things unrelated to his film career aspirations. In that regard, he’s a narrow-minded and self-centric bore. But that’s what also makes him an utterly dedicated and tireless professional, who is 100% committed to realizing his self-proclaimed prophecy: to make moving pictures that inspire and entertain audiences all over the world.