Dea Tcholokava is a Georgian filmmaker with an academic background in socio-political sciences and filmmaking, studied in both Georgia and Germany. She has collaborated with the Caucasus-based media platform Chai Khana on several projects, including Traffic Diaryand Of Kids and Sea. Dea has also worked as an editor and assistant director alongside esteemed Georgian filmmakers such as Lana Gogoberidze, Tato Kotetishvili, and Bakur Bakuradze. Her recent short documentary What Does the Mud Whisper premiered at the Krakow Film Festival in 2025. That same year, she was awarded the Documenta Archive and Goethe-Institut Fellowship.