Ivaylo P. Simidchiev (Bulgarian: Ивайло П. Симидчиев; born February 13, 1970) is a film director, writer and producer from Bulgaria.[1] His short film Mud won 8 international awards and was a competition selection at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival edition.[2]

Filmography

  • Semi-Nuclear (2014) – director, screenwriter, producer. About people left after the Soviet Nuclear Testing Program at former Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan) Test Site
  • The Last Journey (2010) – director, screenwriter, editor, producer Documentary. An older woman travels to say goodbye to her relatives.
  • Fury (2009) – screenwriter, director, producer
  • The Unseen (2005) – Production: Bulgarian National Television, Bulgaria Director 27 min. Documentary. A professional night club bouncer founds a martial arts club among blind schoolchildren.
  • On Suicide (2005) – director, screenwriter, editor, producer An analysis of suicide’s increasing death rates worldwide.
  • CINEMETT or… the Time's Coming for the Cat and the Dog to Get Together (2004) – director, screenwriter, editor. Follows six young heroin-dependent people over two years.
  • 3:33 A.M. (2002) – director, screenwriter, editor, producer; adaptation of the play "My Legs at Night, My Breast at Noon", by Ivaylo Simidchiev.
  • The war between sexes has no day off...
  • Lemon is Lemon (2001) – director, screenwriter, editor Documentary, received four US awards. Five guys gather in an abandoned building, cook up and shoot up dope. Later they chat.
  • Mud (1997) – Production: Director, Screenwriter, Producer fiction film. A foreign visitor finds himself accidentally involved in a chase for a stray child. The latter seriously injures him, but will also try in his own way to save him.

Theatre

  • "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare 2008; Production: "Help for children at risk" association, Bulgaria Director, Multimedia artist
    Part of the "School-Theatre-Life" project funded by Cooperating Netherlands Foundations for Central and Eastern Europe (CNF).
  • "A Midsummer night’s dream" by William Shakespeare 2000-2001; Production: Technosid BG Ltd., Bulgaria Director, Producer
    An acting school project, aimed at preserving and creating the proper evolution conditions for young and promising acting talent.
  • "My Legs at Night, my Breasts – at Noon" by Ivaylo Simidchiev, 1999-2000; Production: Technosid BG Ltd., Bulgaria Playwright, Director, Art Director, Producer; State Theatre of Satire in Sofia.

Awards

For "Mud" (1997):

  • "A Certain Regard" Award for Cinematography, Popovo, Bulgaria, 1998
  • "Most Surprising Film" Award, 13th International Odense Film festival, Denmark, 1998
  • "Kodak's Best Film" Award, Sofia International Student Film Festival, Bulgaria, 1998
  • "Special Mention of the Jury", 10th Festival Premiers Plans, Angers, France, 1998
  • "Best Director" Award, International Munich Festival of Film Schools, Germany, 1997
  • "VFF Young Talent Award", International Munich Festival of Film Schools, Germany, 1997
  • "Best Balkan Short Film" Award, International Short Film Festival of Drama, Greece, 1997
  • "All Russian State Cinematography Institute Honorable Diploma" Varna International Film Festival, Bulgaria, 1997

For "Lemon is Lemon" (2001):

References

  1. ↑ "Bgmovies.info".
  2. ↑ "KAL". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". www.psfilmfest.org. Archived from the original on 9 March 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "Cinequest : Film Festival : Film Details". www.cinequest.org. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
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