SOFIA: Borislav’s Kolev full-length documentary Stoichkov dedicated to the worldwide football legend Hristo Stoichkov and Ilian Metev’s Sofia’s Last Ambulance focused on the daily life of an ambulance team in the Bulgarian capital have started theatrical distribution in Bulgaria.
SOFIA: A parliamentary committee has changed an investment promotion law (www.parliament.bg) to allow Bulgaria to reward investors producing films with budgets over 400,000 leva (203,000 EUR) but the form of the incentives is yet to be determined.
SOFIA: The London-based Alegro Capital (www.alegrocapital.com) corporate finance advisory company became the new owner of TV7 (www.tv7.bg), along with family channel BBT (www.bbt.tv) and children’s channel Super7 (www.super7.bg).
LYON: FNE spoke with John Dick, head of Sector Distribution at the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) (www.eacea.ec.europa.eu) during the Europa Distribution (www.europa-distribution.org) conference in Lyon on the challenges and the successes of Central and Eastern European distributors within the EACEA distribution sector.
LYON: European distributors from 26 countries have backed the proposals of the EU Commission for the MEDIA strand of the new Creative Europe programme, which is currently being discussed by the European Parliament.
The State of Shock by Slovenian director Andrej Košak is a multilateral coproduction between Slovenian Vertigo/Emotionfilm (www.emotionfilm.si), Bulgarian Art Fest (www.siff.bg), Serbian Baš Čelik (www.bascelik.net), Bosna and Herzegovian SCCA/PRO.BA (www.pro.ba) and Macedonian Pank Film (www.pankfilm.mk).
VARNA : The only coproduction that participated in the feature film competition of the 31st “Golden Rose” Varna Film Festival (5-11 October 2012) Spain grabbed the “best script” award.
VARNA: Vladislav Todorov's film adaptation of his novel Zincograph, The Color of the Chameleon, produced by Peripeteia Films - Buryana Zaharieva & Vladislav Todorov (www.peripeteiafilms.com) was awarded the national “Golden Rose” Grand Prix at the 31st “Golden Rose” Varna Film Festival (5-11 October 2012).
VARNA: Director Nikolay Mutafchiev presents his debut film One More Dream in the Bulgarian National Competition of the Golden Rose Film Festival.
VARNA: The Foreigner by writer/director/actor Niki Iliev is a romantic comedy about a young man who travels to Bulgaria and falls in love with a hot tempered village girl.
