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The Bulgarian film-maker talks about her semi-autobiographical directorial debut, nine years in the making.Viktoria may be Bulgarian born Maya Vitkovas directorial feature debut, but she is no novice, having spent years gaining experience as a casting director, assistant director and most recently executive producer on the 2009 Cannes Directors Fortnight selection Eastern Plays.Describing her directorial debut as semi autobiographical , Viktoria is set in the last decade of Communism in Bulgaria and centers around a young girl, born with no umbilical cord, who is chosen as the Socialist Baby of the Decade , leading to resentment from her mother played by Irmena Chichikova who dreamt of escaping the regime. Viktoria is a story about choice and the choice is, you cannot start living until youve learned to love, explains the writer/director, who took nine years to make the film, from script to completion.One of the biggest challenges came when the mother of the newborn baby she had cast to play Viktoria pulled out a week before shooting, resulting in, as Vitkova describes it, an emergency baby-search. Luckily, she found a replacement when the daughter of a family friend happened to turn up to a casting session with her tiny baby. I went to the sleeping baby and asked her, quietly: Are you Viktoria Believe it or <a href=https://www.stanleycup.com.de>stanley cup</a> not, she smiled in her sleep, e <a href=https://www.stanleyusa.us>stanley usa</a> xplains the director, who cites Cassavettes and Bergman a <a href=https://www.stanleyus.us>stanley us</a> mong the directors who have inspired her work.Despite her experience a
The Times bfi London Film Festival Oct 20-Nov 4 is set tostage its own, unofficial mini-market.Fortissimo,Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Bavaria Film and Trust are among theinternational sales agents already confirmed to attend the festival, which willbe organising industry screenings at London s Curzon Soho from Oct 25- 27. Thesales agents, all of which have titles in the LFF, will be in London as guestsof <a href=https://www.cup-stanley.uk>stanley cup</a> the festival.The move comes just months after the London Development Agency LDA announcedthat it was <a href=https://www.stanleywebsite.us>stanley website</a> investing 拢100,000 in the LFF. 拢65,000 of the new money is beingchannelled into expanding the festival s industry activities.The industry screenings are aimed predominantly at UKbuyers. 30 films will be shown, most without British distribution and some insearch of sales agent representation. Titles range from Kenny Glenaan s Yasminto Manuel Poirier s Chemins De Traverse and Paolo Verzis s CaterinaIn The Big City.There will be a range of social events for industry delegates, including a buyersand sellers party on Oct 25 at Soho House. The idea is to make thefestival far more friendly for industry people in the UK - to make it a bitmore fun and festive, Sarah Sulick, buyers and sellers facilitator at theLFF, told ScreenDaily.The organisers insist that there is no overlap between the new industryevent and the London UK F <a href=https://www.stanleymugs.us>stanley cup</a> ilm Focus also co-funded by the LDA which took placein London earlier this summer. The Focus, which consisted entirely of Britishfilms, was an export Jhim HFF unveils Hollywood World Awards shortlist
The Bulgarian film-maker talks about her semi-autobiographical directorial debut, nine years in the making.Viktoria may be Bulgarian born Maya Vitkovas directorial feature debut, but she is no novice, having spent years gaining experience as a casting director, assistant director and most recently executive producer on the 2009 Cannes Directors Fortnight selection Eastern Plays.Describing her directorial debut as semi autobiographical , Viktoria is set in the last decade of Communism in Bulgaria and centers around a young girl, born with no umbilical cord, who is chosen as the Socialist Baby of the Decade , leading to resentment from her mother played by Irmena Chichikova who dreamt of escaping the regime. Viktoria is a story about choice and the choice is, you cannot start living until youve learned to love, explains the writer/director, who took nine years to make the film, from script to completion.One of the biggest challenges came when the mother of the newborn baby she had cast to play Viktoria pulled out a week before shooting, resulting in, as Vitkova describes it, an emergency baby-search. Luckily, she found a replacement when the daughter of a family friend happened to turn up to a casting session with her tiny baby. I went to the sleeping baby and asked her, quietly: Are you Viktoria Believe it or <a href=https://www.stanleycup.com.de>stanley cup</a> not, she smiled in her sleep, e <a href=https://www.stanleyusa.us>stanley usa</a> xplains the director, who cites Cassavettes and Bergman a <a href=https://www.stanleyus.us>stanley us</a> mong the directors who have inspired her work.Despite her experience a
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