Bulgaria's Love is Folly twins with Belgian FIFA
VARNA: One of Bulgaria’s most popular film festivals, Love is Folly, is headed for a close three-year cooperation with Belgium's Mons International Love Film Festival. Dedicated to the theme of…
Bulgaria Delays Analogue TV Switch-off
SOFIA: The final analogue signal switch-off originally planned for 1 September will go off 1 November because of delays in getting out vouchers for free TV converters to low-income households.
Sylvester Stallone Shooting Expendables 3 in Bulgaria
SOFIA: The Nu Image/Millennium Films mega production The Expendables 3, which leading man Sylvester Stallone co-wrote, began shooting in Varna, the postcard-perfect Bulgarian Black Sea town, 19 August.
PRODUCTION: Bulgaria's Fourth Power Strikes Close to Home
SOFIA: An ambitious new 12-part political thriller series about a fictional daily newspaper, Fourth Power, will finally air on pubcaster Bulgarian National Television in September, following its victory over real-life…
Bulgarian Admissions Up
SOFIA: With a 40% jump in admissions to 2,716,090 and box office up nearly 43%, at 11,691799 EUR, for the first six months of 2013 compared to last year, Bulgarian…
PRODUCTION: Kostadin Bonev Shooting Docu on 'Romantic Execution'
Award-winning director Kostadin Bonev (Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch, 2002; Europolis-The Town of The Delta, 2009) is shooting his full length documentary Six Stories On A Romantic Execution about the life…
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Festival and Congress Centre Varna
FNE together with Europa Cinemas continues its Cinema of the Month series. In recognition of the hard work and excellence of European cinema operators we choose a cinema from each…
PRODUCTION: Georgi Djulgerov’s Buffer Zone in Post-production
Renowned for his original talent and unconventional style, Silver Bear-winning Bulgarian director Georgi Djulgerov (Advantage, 1977) is in postproduction on his 15th feature, Buffer Zone. The young company Front Film,…
PRODUCTION: Georgi Djulgerov’s Buffer Zone in Post-production
Renowned for his original talent and unconventional style, Silver Bear-winning Bulgarian director Georgi Djulgerov (Advantage, 1977) is in postproduction on his 15th feature, Buffer Zone. The young company Front Film …
FNE at Venice FF 2013: Bulgaria’s Alienation headed for Venice Days
VENICE: Alienation a first film by Bulgarian director Milko Lazarov will screen in official selection in the Venice Days section at the 70th Biennale this year. A first film, it…
PRODUCTION: Bulgarian Israeli Concert for the Survivals Begins Filming
SOFIA: Ivan Nichev has started production on the Bulgarian-Israeli coproduction Concert for the Survivals at Nu Boyana Film Studios (www.nuboyana.com) where the production has planned 12 shooting days
FNE/IDF Doc Bloc: A Classroom Story
Tanuki films is in production with a Bulgarian documentary about the educational system in present-day Bulgaria. Read the full story on Dokweb.
Marin Martschewski: Executive Director of the Bulgarian National Film Center
FNE spoke to Marin Martschewski about the challenges facing the Bulgarian film industry as he takes up his new job as head of the Bulgarian National Film Center
EFP Producers on the Move 2013: Konstantin Bojanov
SOFIA: Bulgarian producer Konstantin Bojanov, born in 1968, is a quadruple-threat producer/writer/director/visual artist.
ScripTeast 2013 at Cannes: The Year of the Kuker
Scriptwriters Nadejda Koseva of Bulgaria and Bojan Vuletić of Serbia compete for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with The Year of the Kuker, the story…
PRODUCTION: Searching for Spisarevski in Postproduction
SOFIA: Bulgarian award winning documentary film director Adela Peeva (Whose is This Song, 2003, Divorce Albanian style, 2007) is in postproduction with Searching for Spisarevski about WWII pilot Dimitar Spisarevski.
The Colour of the Chameleon Leads Bulgarian Film Nominations
SOFIA: Emil Christov’s The Color of the Chameleon received thirteen nominations for the Bulgarian Film Academy awards, with ten films eligible to compete.
Rangel Valtchanov Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
SOFIA: One of Bulgaria's most respected film directors Rangel Valtchanov is the new holder of the national Film Academy Lifetime Achievement award for 2012.
Bulgarian bTV Premieres The Family
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s leading commercial TV channel bTV began broadcasting the first two episodes of its new 12 parts series The Family on 7 April 2013. The premiere comes soon after…
