With 12 years of experience in the audiovisual sector already under their belt, the pair founded Chouchkov Brothers in 2003 to create and produce features and documentaries, TV shows, and music clips. Victor directed while Borislav produced video clips performed by famous Bulgarian pop singers such as Maria Ilieva and Beloslava. Their work for leading broadcasters Bulgarian National Television (www.btv.bg), bTV (www.btv.bg) and Nova TV (www.novatv.bg) included the weekly show Kings of Comedy for Nova. The full-length documentary Homo Ludens dedicated to renowned Bulgarian theater director Dimiter Gotscheff, co-produced with the Bulgarian National Television won the special jury "Golden Umbrella" award at the MEDIAMIXX '08 Festival (http://2008.mediamixx.info) and the best documentary debut of 2009 at the Bulgarian annual cinema awards.
Prior to Tilt, their biggest success, Chuchkov Brothers produced a number of shorts, including Liubomir Mladenov's Karting and "34", Chavdar Jivkov's Floor 2, Viktor Chouchkov Jr's A.T.M., Ivan Cherkelov's Crayfish (coproduced with Klas Film, www.klasfilm.com) and Liubomir Mladenov's Hunting Park (coproduced with Front Film, www.frontfilm.eu).
Bulgarian distribution of the romantic generation drama Tilt started on 11 February 2011 with 31 prints, topping the box office for four consecutive week ends with 140,000 tickets sold.
In Cannes Chouchkov Brothers and Tilt will be represented by Borislav Chouchkov who has a Master's degree in European Audio-Visual Managementfrom the Media Business School and a master's degree in acting from the Bulgarian National Academy for Theatre and Film (www.natfiz.bg). Having started to work in production at the age of 16 and having established his first production company at the age of 19 Borislav says he "enjoys producing films." He has even financed some shorts by deferring his producer's fee and investing cash money as well. "But never over 10% of the whole budget, and only in case I believed in the financial success of the film," he notes.
Chouchkov Brothers' next film will be an adaptation of Zachary Karabashliev's best seller 18% Gray, a "suspenseful, darkly funny, raw, poetic, short-breathed and unusual story of a Bulgarian expatriate in California."
Borislav Chouchkov
Chouchkov Brothers Ltd.
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