Stanimir Trifonov
Bulgarian director Stanimir Trifonov was born in 1958 in Veliko Turnovo. He graduated from the High Institute for Theatre Arts in 1986. He won a Silver Rhyton at the Plovdiv Short Film Fest for Elias Canetti: Answer to a Letter, a Golden Rose for the documentary Character Impossible and a Golden Chest for the mini-series Battue for Wolves. Incineration, his feature debut, also won a Golden Rose. He is the director of the documentary film production house Time Studios.

Simon Ellis
Simon graduated from Nottingham Trent University (Fine Art BA Hons) in 1995, specialising in stills photography. Since then he has written and directed fourteen short films, resulting in over three hundred screenings on the international festival circuit, several awards, and a number of retrospective programmes of his work. International sales and commissions include both terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadcasts, from airline acquisitions to MTV rotations. He is currently writing first feature film.

Rostislava Gencheva
Rostislava Gencheva at the moment is finishing her university education at NATFA “Krastio Sarafov”, subject “Cinema studies”. Since 2001 she works at BTV, first as a scriptwriter for the TV program “Inache”, then at “News and actual programs”. She writes for the periodical press. She is the winner of the big award in category “Lifestyle programs and parts of programs” at the “Osma Muza” festival 2004, “Knight of the book” 2004 and 2005.

Tsvetomira Nikolova
Born 1960 in Sofia, Bulgaria. A graduate of the National Academy of Drama & Film Arts , Sofia, Bulgaria. Has worked at Animated Films Studio”Sofia” and at Richard Williams Studio , London. Has illustrated a few books for children. At present works on a on a 5minutes-long art film “ A+E”.

Sigal Mordechai
Sigal Mordechai has a BA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in History of Art and South-East Asian studies, and she is also a Graduate of Cinema studies from Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv. Her graduate short film “America” participated in over 20 festivals around the world. Along her occupation as art expert at Sotheby’s Israel, she and her sister Galit Mordechai are currently writing a script for their Feature film.

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