21/12/2022 - The funding body approved ten feature film projects for filming and ten screenwriting ideas for script development while additionally supporting two short film projects

Peter Krumov, who received backing for his project The Monster on the Opposite Bank

After the first round of projects evaluation for 2022 in which feature film proposals by Kamen Kalev (Eastern Plays [+see also:
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interview: Kamen Kalev
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interview: Dragomir Sholev
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interview: Maya Vitkova
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The three projects supported in the category for films with a total budget of over BGN 600,000 (€306,749) are Yavor Gardev’s Yan Bibiyan, based on the eponymous and locally popular fantasy novel for children by Elin Pelin; mainstream oriented Ivaylo Penchev’s Birthday and Stefan Komandarev’s Made in EU, following his trilogy consisting of Directions [+see also:
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interview: Stephan Komandarev
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interview: Stephan Komandarev
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BGN 1,860,000 (€949,910) is the total amount granted to debuts and it will be divided between Peter Krumov’s The Monster on the Opposite Bank backed by Klas Film (Godless [+see also:
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interview: Radu Jude
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interview: Viktor Chouchkov
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40 other project across all categories were rejected by the committee.