About me
The director and scriptwriter of more than 50 films and TV programs, I began my career in the film industry when I was sixteen years old. I worked as a gaffer, later I became an editor, and for ten years I was an assistant cameraman and cameraman for music videos and TV ads. In 1996 I co-produced the film "Talking to Birds". Then I started directing short films in 2000: among others, Romeo and Juliet was selected for the festival in Lodz, Poland, and Nestinarka was included in the selection of the festival ‘Golden Vitiaz’ in Moscow. In 2000 I started developing and directing the TV program about extreme sports "Bx3m", as well as the music TV show "Lakritz". I directed The "Last Night of the Mormons" (2001), and Panta rei (TV documentary, 2003), and was the executive producer of the films "Citizen X", and "Balkan Error" (both released in 2002). In 2006/2007 I directed numerous films, commissioned by the Bulgarian National Television: "The Love of the tenors", "Voice of a Lark", "Stefan Elenkov", the documentaries "When April Comes, "Plovdiv Reads", and "The Music of the Victory".
In 2008 directed "Brothers Gelevi", and "The Songs of Thrace" (both for the Bulgarian National Television) and edited the film "Hushove".
I also directed numerous low-budget TV advertisements and music videos. Currently, I work as a freelance director on the free market.
My most recent projects are the short films "Casta Diva "(2009) – an exploration of the pleasure and pain in the training process of a female gymnast, and "On Air", starring principal dancers of the Bulgarian National Ballet.
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time.”
– Andrei Tarkovsky