Georgi Balabanov

Georgi Balabamov graduated from The National Theater Academy in 1974 in Sofia. From 1976 to 1980 he was the director of the Theatre of Pazardzhik (Bulgaria). In 1981 he directed his first short film "Commemoration'' (Pomen), primer in several festivals (Oberhausen, London Short Film Award at the Venice Biennale in 1985). After a series of films on Bulgarian painters, he directed in 1984 ''Solo for an English corn'' (Special mention to Ethnographic Film Review Paris in 1984 and Honorary Diploma at the Leipzig festival in 1984. After a passage at the Théâtre du Soleil he settled in Paris and pursued a career as an independent filmmaker. It provides, in another ''Shadow Hunter'' in 1991 Nestor Almendros Prize at Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York in 1992, ''The border of our dreams'' in 1996 and ''Misfortunes of Sofia'' in 2000. In 2014 he directed the feature film ''The Petrov File'' co-written with Jean Claude Carrière and 2015 the feature documentary and on.