The Caucasus and Hollywood

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Actor Andy Garcia is in Georgia to play the part of President Mikheil Saakashvili in a film about last year’s conflict with Russia. The biggest-budget movie ever to be made on Georgian soil, tells the story of a journalist and a cameraman caught up in the unfolding drama of the war last August. Carol Hills reports. (Photo: Irakli Gedenidze/AFP/Getty Images) Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• Georgia-Russia conflict

Protests in Georgia (5:30)

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with reporter Jacob Resneck in Tbilisi, Georgia, about the continued protests there. For the second day in a row, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to demand that the country’s president step down. GIPA Journalism School Blog