Ivaylo Simidchiev

Ivaylo P. Simidchiev (Bulgarian: Ивайло П. Симидчиев) (born February 13, 1970) is a film director, writer and producer from Bulgaria. His short film “Mud” won 8 international awards and was a competition selection at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival edition.

Filmography
  • "Semi-Nuclear” 2014 Director, Screenwriter, Producer. About people left after the Soviet Nuclear Testing Program at former Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan) Test Site
  • "The Last Journey” 2010; Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer Documentary. A older women travels to say goodbyes to her relatives.
  • "Fury” 2009 Screenwriter, Director, Producer
  • "The Unseen” 2005; Production: Bulgarian National Television, Bulgaria Director 27 min. Documentary. A professional night club bouncer founds a martial arts club among blind schoolchildren.
  • "On Suicide” 2005; Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer An analysis of suicide’s increasing death rates worldwide.
  • "CINEMETT or… the Time's Coming for the Cat and the Dog to Get Together" 2004; Director, Screenwriter, Editor. Follows six young heroin-dependent people over two years.
  • “3:33 A.M.” 2002; Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer; adaptation of the play "My Legs at Night, My Breast at Noon", by Ivaylo Simidchiev.
  • The war between sexes has no day off...
  • “Lemon is Lemon” 2001;Director, Screenwriter, Editor Documentary, received four US awards. Five guys gather in an abandoned building, cook up and shoot up dope. Later they chat.
  • “Mud” 1997; Production: Director, Screenwriter, Producer fiction film. A foreign visitor finds himself accidentally involved in a chase for a stray child. The latter seriously injures him, but will also try in his own way to save him.

Theatre
  • “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare 2008; Production: “Help for children at risk” association, Bulgaria Director, Multimedia artist
    Part of the “School-Theatre-Life” project funded by Cooperating Netherlands Foundations for Central and Eastern Europe (CNF).
  • “A Midsummer night’s dream” by William Shakespeare 2000-2001; Production: Technosid BG Ltd., Bulgaria Director, Producer
    An acting school project, aimed at preserving and creating the proper evolution conditions for young and promising acting talent.
  • “My Legs at Night, my Breasts – at Noon” by Ivaylo Simidchiev, 1999-2000; Production: Technosid BG Ltd., Bulgaria Playwright, Director, Art Director, Producer; State Theatre of Satire in Sofia.

Awards

For “Mud” (1997):

  • "A Certain Regard" Award for Cinematography, Popovo, Bulgaria, 1998
  • "Most Surprising Film" Award, 13th International Odense Film festival, Denmark, 1998
  • "Kodak's Best Film" Award, Sofia International Student Film Festival, Bulgaria, 1998
  • "Special Mention of the Jury", 10th Festival Premiers Plans, Angers, France, 1998
  • "Best Director" Award, International Munich Festival of Film Schools, Germany, 1997
  • "VFF Young Talent Award", International Munich Festival of Film Schools, Germany, 1997
  • "Best Balkan Short Film" Award, International Short Film Festival of Drama, Greece, 1997
  • "All Russian State Cinematography Institute Honorable Diploma" Varna International Film Festival, Bulgaria, 1997

For “Lemon is Lemon” (2001):

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