PRODUCTION: The Last Black Sea Pirates in Postproduction
SOFIA: The Bulgarian production company Agitprop (www.agitprop.bg) is in the final postproduction on The Last Black Sea Pirates and Sir Norman Foster, a debut full-length documentary directed and written by…
Bulgarian Media Family Acquires Music Channel
SOFIA: The Bulgarian new service Novinte reports that Bulgarian media magnates Irena Drasteva ns Delyan Peevski, her son, acquired The Voice, a pop music TV channel, along with four radio…
Bulgaria Plans TV Multiplex Tender
SOFIA: Bulgaria plans a tender for a new digital TV multiplex tender in 2014. The multiples will use frequencies that are now used by the military.
Expendables Accused of Environmental Damage
SOFIA: The Bulgarian location shoot of Hollywood's The Expendables 2 starring Sylvester Stallone will be fined for destroying vegetation at an important environmental site in Bulgaria. The fine could range…
Italian Goodnight Sofia Wraps Filming in Bulgaria
SOFIA: Goodnight Sofia from Italian writer/director Leonardo Moro, finished filming in Bulgaria. The film is produced by Italian company BBM film (brownbunnymagazine.wordpress.com/bbm-film).
Bulgarian Cable Company Fined
SOFIA: Swedish cable owner EQT received a fine from the Bulgarian consumer protection agency for misleading information concerning its Bulgarian cable company. Blizoo, the largest cable operator in the country,…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF: Rules of Single Life
Rules of Single Life, a character-driven documentary, was directed by Bulgaria born expat Tonislav Hristov, residing in Finland since 1999.
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF: Rules of Single Life
Rules of Single Life, a character-driven documentary, was directed by Bulgaria born expat Tonislav Hristov, residing in Finland since 1999.
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF: Mothers
The experimental three parts film Mothers by Milcho Manchevski is the Macedonian director's second coproduction with Bulgaria, following Shadows which was coproduced the Bulgarian company Camera (www.camera.bg). Mothers was coproduced…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF: Mothers
The experimental three partsfilm Mothers by Milcho Manchevski is the Macedonian director's second coproduction with Bulgaria, following Shadows which was coproduced the Bulgarian company Camera (www.camera.bg). Mothers was coproduced by…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF: Fish Cry Freedom
The low-budget 61-minute HD feature film Fish Cry Freedom is a feature debut from an Austrian film director and cultural anthropologist living in Munich, Wilma Kiener. Gergana Kofardzhieva and Itzko…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF: Fish Cry Freedom
The low-budget 61-minute HD feature film Fish Cry Freedomis a feature debut from an Austrian film director and cultural anthropologist living in Munich, Wilma Kiener. Gergana Kofardzhieva and Itzko Finci…
FESTIVALS: NO. 1 Grabs the Bulgarian Golden Rose Award
VARNA, BULGARIA: The 30th Golden Rose Bulgarian National Film Festival (7-13 October 2011) delivered the Best Feature Film "Golden rose" award to Atanas Hristoskov's debut film NO. 1. The president…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: There Was Never a Better Brother
Murad Ibragimbekov's newest film There Was Never a Better Brother is the result of the director‘s latest artistic collaboration with Maksud Ibragimbekov, one of Azerbaijan's most established writers and Murad‘s…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: Operation-Shmenti Capelli
Operation-Shmenti Capelli (www.shmentikapeli.com) is one of the most unique filmmaking stories in Bulgaria during the last twenty years. The long awaited eccentric comedy is a personal dream of popular Bulgarian…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: Ave
Ave is a first feature film from Konstantin Bojanov, funded with €300,000 in public support from the National Film Center (www.nfc.bg), €14,000 - from the Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg), €100,000…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: NO.1
Bulgaria's first "hip-hop film" (as the local media named it), Atanas Hristoskov's feature film debut NO.1, premiered at the 2011 Sofia film fest (www.siff.bg). The low budget film was produced…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: Little-Big
Little-Big is a low budget, independently financed musical film directed by Yassen Grigorov, who is mainly known as a book illustrator and director of TV commercials. Its experimental spirit consists…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: Lora From Morning Till Evening
Dimitar Kotsev - Shosho, the writer and director of Lora From Morning Till Evening (www.lorathemovie.com), describes his film as an "urban adventure with little magical moments." Based on his book…
FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: Old Toughies
Old Toughies is an 86-minute ironic comedy backed by the Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg) and produced by Urban Media. The HD shoot lasted a month in 2010, taking place mainly…