Artists and Orphans: A True Drama

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
Directed by	Lianne Klapper McNally
Music by	Peter Fish
Edited by	Ellen Goldwasser, Jonathan Kohen
Distributed by	Not By Chance Productions Inc.
Release date	2001
Running time	40 minutes
Country	United States / Georgia
Language	English

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama (known in Russian as Артисты и сироты: Настоящая драма) is a 2001 documentary documenting a group of American artists traveling to the Republic of Georgia for an art festival, and their subsequent effort to provide humanitarian aid to a group of local orphans. Directed, produced, and written by filmmaker Lianne Klapper McNally, upon its debut in 2001, the Daily Nexus described it as "heart-wrenching and eventually heart-warming," as well as "short, gritty and brilliantly scored." The film won Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and it was nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 74th Academy Awards.Artists and Orphans had won multiple film festival awards by 2002, debuting on television several months later through WE tv.

Artists and Orphans, a short documentary directed by Lianne Klapper McNally, details a group of American artists traveling to the Republic of Georgia after an invitation to take part in an international arts festival. Upon discovering that the country is undergoing a humanitarian crisis, the troupe is introduced to a group of orphans living in Tbilisi, Georgia, who were surviving extreme deprivation in a mental hospital bombed out in the Georgian civil war. With winter approaching, the film documents the artists' attempt to gather funds and supplies for the make-shift orphanage, which lacked heating, food, electricity, and water. They then help prepare the orphanage for winter.

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