THE 355 FILM AWARD
The Stoyan Kambarev Art Foundation challanges young filmmakers!
THE 355
FILM AWARD
2021
3 young filmmakers selected by an international professional jury5 minute fiction film
5 days for shooting and post-production
WINNER
Viktor Ivanov
Viktor is 29 years old, born in Kyustendil. Growing up with Anime, he eventually fell in love with cinema and especially the French New Wave, which shaped his style to a huge extent. He graduated in Cinema and Television at the NBU, then specialized in Italy at the Cinemadamare film campus. He went on to film in France, Croatia, Italy and Serbia. He has made a dozen short films, including "Neno Who Killed His Father", "Seconda Categoria", "Vuja De" and "Locus Amoenus", which received the Privet Award at the Biennale Di Venezia 75 and the Umbria Region Award. He has directed many music videos and is currently working on his debut feature film.
FINALIST
Rositsa Trayanova
Rositsa is 27 years old, born in Balchik. In 2019 she graduated in film directing in Paris. She has directed four short films, including the LGBTQ-themed Call Me What You Want, nominated for Best Drama at the Canada Shorts Festival, and Flowers of Algiers, which took part in CineLibri 2019 and won Best Adaptation at Moscow Shorts. Her latest film "Pardon" won the Golden Fox for Best Film at the Calcutta International Film Festival, and her first "I Love You Daddy" was selected at more than 30 international festivals, including Short Film Corner at Cannes. Rosica has worked in the editorial department of Channel Plus in Paris. Recently she has been living in Sofia. Besides cinema, she likes to write poetry under the pseudonym Rose Trajan. Her debut novel "Chimera for Life" was published in 2012.
FINALIST
Elena Chergilanova
Elena is only 22 years old. After graduating from the American College of Sofia, she went to England to study Cinema at the University of Reading, but in 2017 she moved to Berlin where she continued her film adventure with an intensive course in Experimental Cinema at the Met Film School. He went on to study "Graphic Design" at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule. During her studies there she created the short experimental film "Toccata", which she will distribute as a video installation in galleries. Last year he filmed "The Main Course" in an abandoned factory and former military base, with which he criticized the meat industry and specism. Elena is heavily influenced by surrealism and boldly experiments with the visualisation of her films.
