Golden Rose 2015

Official Awards Feature film jury: Jury President: Stephan Komandarev, director/writer/producer, winner of Golden Rose Award at the 32ndt edition of the Festival for his The Judgement, and Jury members: Antonia Kovacheva, film critic, Director of Bulgarian National Film Archive; Kiran Kolarov, director/writer/producer; Krasimir Andonov, cinematographer and Yanina Kasheva, actress Bestowed as follows: Golden Rose Award for Best Feature Film goes to Losers, producer Pro Film – Asen Vladimirov; writer/director...

CUBO BAR

Cubo beach bar will be once again the festival’s hot spot. Located by the sea, it is the favourite venue of the Black Sea nightlife. Both Bulgarian cinephiles and Bulgarian filmmakers would enjoy the cocktails of a mastery mixologist, the selected music and the one of a kind ambience that has made of Cubo an oasis for contemporary Bohemians. The slang word ‘cuboism’ is the local version of hedonism,...

VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers are often referred to as the invisible heroes in an event of the scope of GOLDEN ROSE. Still, the truth is that participating in such an event is so funny and rewarding. We’d rather bring together people who’d deem the experience gained in the organisation of a film festival as a fun and a rare chance to develop skills in mounting and managing events. This year, over 40...

FESTIVAL NEWSLETTER

The traditional and eagerly anticipated GOLDEN ROSE Festival newsletter will be issued again in the early mornings of the Festival much to the joy of professionals and cinemagoers. It will be published on a daily basis by a team of young film historians led by Dean Statulov, Ph.D. The pages of the newsletter will feature interviews, news, interesting overviews, and curious moments of this event of national scope held...

‘100 YEARS OF BULGARIAN CINEMA’ JUBILEE MEDAL

was released by the Bulgarian Mint exclusively for the National Film Center and the organizers of the 33rd edition of Golden Rose Festival of Bulgarian Feature Film. The obverse of the medal features the vision of the Centenary as designed by Nikolay Tonkov, famous for his Like.Bulgaria campaign. The reverse carries as an incuse the well-known logo of the National Film Centre both in Cyrillic and Roman letters against...

ROUNDTABLE

BULGARIAN FILM’S CENTENARY: STRATEGIES, PERSPECTIVES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR YEARS TO COME is the range of issues to be deliberated during a two-day roundtable held within GOLDEN ROSE Festival. Experts and professionals such as Ivan Popyordanov, Sevda Shishmanova, Miroslav Borsos, Diana Andreeva, Galina Toneva, Bozhidar Manov, Mira Staleva, Henry Koulev among others will deliberate on the role of Bulgarian film within the framework of Bulgaria’s general cultural strategy, the...

CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA SUB-PROGRAMME WITH A SPECIAL STAND

Within GOLDEN ROSE Festival, the desk of CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA Sub-programme will promote the opportunities for support for the development of film projects as well as the funding intended for distributors, festivals, training programmes, video games and innovative technologies. Representatives of MEDIA desk will elaborated on who and how is eligible to apply, what are the steps to develop a project, what applying means practically, deadlines, etc. All interested...

THE FESTIVAL JOINS A CHARITABLE CAUSE OF KARIN DOM FOUNDATION

For the second time we’ll support this year a wonderful idea of Karin Dom Foundation, Varna. Following the last year’s campaign for building a sensory garden, in 2015 we turn to music therapy as part of the therapeutic processes of children with special needs. In 2014–2015, the music therapist of Karin Dom worked with 20 children in various conditions, affected by ASDs, Down’s syndrome, GDD, speech problems, sensory deficits,...

BULGARIAN FILM POSTERS EXHIBITION

This year, the organizers of the Festival have mounted two very interesting shows. AUTHORS AND POSTERS: Bulgarian Film’s Centenary exhibition will be unveiled at Boris Georgiev Art Gallery, Varna, featuring a wide informative range of posters of one hundred Bulgarian movies providing also biographical details about their authors.   Bulgarian posters of such movies as Doomed Souls; Ladies’ Choice; Bonne Chance; Inspector!; Favourite No. 13; Matriarchy; Up in the...