76 documentaries and animations were screened at the 24th edition of the Bulgarian gathering. Following the Golden Rose Film Festival, organised every October in the city of Varna, the Bulgarian National Film Center has presented this year’s crop of documentaries and animations at the Golden Rhyton Documentary and Animation Film Festival, traditionally hosted by the city of Plovdiv. The awards of the 24th edition (29 November–6 December) were announced during a gala on Friday evening. The centre provided funding to most of the films shown at this edition. Assen Vladimirov’s Pawn Sacrifice, a film about the peculiar destiny of Marko Markov, an anatomical pathologist involved in the German investigation of the Katyn massacre, won the Best Documentary Award, while the Best Animation Award went to Andrey Tsvetkov’s A Tree of Iron. The jury of this year’s edition was led by director Svetoslav Stoyanov, whose documentary The Last Black Sea Pirates.
Award-winning documentary filmmakers take part in pan-European TV project.
Forty-five European documentary directors are taking part in the marathon TV project 24h Europe – We Are The Future (working title) that wraps today (Monday June 18) after a four-day shoot across the continent.
The directors include Germany’s Thomas Riedelsheimer, Serbia’s Mila Turajlic and Romania’s Alexandru Solomon.
It follows 60 protagonists in 25 European countries from Bulgaria to Iceland and focusing on the hopes, fears and desires of young people between the ages of 15 and 30.
The project is a co-production between Berlin-based zero one 24 and France’s Idéale Audience, and is backed by Arte,...
Forty-five European documentary directors are taking part in the marathon TV project 24h Europe – We Are The Future (working title) that wraps today (Monday June 18) after a four-day shoot across the continent.
The directors include Germany’s Thomas Riedelsheimer, Serbia’s Mila Turajlic and Romania’s Alexandru Solomon.
It follows 60 protagonists in 25 European countries from Bulgaria to Iceland and focusing on the hopes, fears and desires of young people between the ages of 15 and 30.
The project is a co-production between Berlin-based zero one 24 and France’s Idéale Audience, and is backed by Arte,...
- 6/18/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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