our directors
BILYANA KiRILOVA
Bilyana Kirilova directed over 15 short films, mainly in Italy (2013-2016) and won various awards, including awards for directing and best film chosen by the jury headed by Krzysztof Zanussi, Umberto Contarello (screenwriter of “The Great beauty”) and Tonino de Bernardi. Her film “Flowers of Evil” (based on the trial of Charles Baudelaire) received an award for best production.
Her debut full-length documentary – “VOEV” (2022), won the awards for debut and best film of the festival “Master of Art” 2022.
Audience Award from “Rhodope Film Festival” 2022.
Screenplay Award and Special Jury Award from The Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers – “Vasil Gendov” 2023.
Member of the jury of Master of Art 2023.
Script supervisor for Cinemadamare 2016
Selector for the English Watersprite Film Festival 2014. Jury of CineLibri 2023 for documentary movies. Jury of Vasil Gendov 2024 for documentary movies.
DEYAN PAROUCHEV
Deyan Parouchev lives in France since 1991. He is working in different
artistic spheres – directing, cinematography and photography. He chose to focus on applied arts and graduated from Créapole
ESDI in Visual Communication and Creative Advertising. After a short experience
in an advertising agency, started working in the film and video post-production as
artistic director. Years later he studied at ENS Louis Lumière to acquire new
skills in directing feature projects. Currently he is in pre-production of his second documentary “4 Seasons of Hope”, supported by the National Film Center.
His first documentary “Timeless Beauty” was screened at the Gala du Cinéma Asiatique, at the Cannes Film Festival 2018. The movie had its world premiere on Black Knights POFF at Tallinn, Estonia.
TANYA CHERNEVA
Tanya Cherneva studied Screenwriting in Norwich -University of East Anglia, UK 2018. In 2022-2023 Tanya was part of British Film Institute NETWORK in Shorts School. She has an MA in Film and TV art from New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria. She also worked in the TV and Film industry in Bulgaria and in UK as a video-editor, vision mixer, promo producer, writer and copywriter.
Tanya is also a writer/director of few short films.
Currently in Dekidis Films she is in pre-production for her short feature film “The Last Monster”, funded by the National Film Center.
She is also writing the script of “Gosho the Penguin” – animated feature in development, funded by National Film Center.
KAMEN KOLAROV
Kamen Kolarov is a Bulgarian director and screenwriter. He graduated with “Film and TV Directing” at the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts.
His filmography includes three short feature films and two documentaries, over 40 episodes of TV series, dozens of commercials, corporate films and music videos.
He is currently working on his debut feature film that won a grant from the National Film Center, while he is in production of our documentary project “The Season of the Bears”.
He is also working on a second feature film, as well as a TV series that he co-wrote.
Stefan Voivodov
Stefan Voivodov obtained his Master Degree in “Animation Direction” from New Bulgarian University, where he later became honorary lecturer at BP Animation direction.
Stefan is also part of the team creating the World Animation Film Festival since 2014.
He regularly participates in exhibitions, various kinds of projects, seminars and creative workshops.
He had his solo photography exhibition “Bear-fugitive from civilization” which was a huge success.
Stefan is the winner of awards and selections from various film festivals in Bulgaria and abroad, such as: Best Bulgarian film from Early Bird Film Festival; Best Animated Debut from SBFD; the grand prize for the Cinelibri short film competition; and nomination for best documentary debut from SBFD for his documentary “Bear”.
ANTON ZHEKOV
Anton Zhekov in an animation graduate with enthusiasm for stop motion and all of its aspects. He is experienced in stop motion production involved in his personal projects and as a part of other teams. He is also working in the field of live action set lighting. As his desire is to further improve his skills and implement them into amazing projects with inspiring colleagues, his debut animation project “Myths for Good Night” captivated us. Now Anton is working on pre-production for his debut, granted by the National Film Center.
Ilina Perianova
Ilina Perianova is a director and screenwriter. She has graduated from the MA program “Fiction Film Directing” in Baltic Film and Media School in Estonia. Her BA is in theater acting and directing, which she has studied in Bulgaria, France and Denmark. Ilina is the director of the short musical film “Eat me!”, the fairy tale “Snowgirl”, and co-director to the short poetry film “Queen”, which have been selected to many international festivals. Ilina’s latest short “Between me and you” is co- production with Dekidis Films. Currently she is working on the post-production of her documentary “Dogumental” as well as on her debut feature film and a sequel of “Eat me!” – “Wear me!”.
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Address: Mladost 3, bl. 310, 1712, Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone number: +359 888 041 421
Email: dekidisfilms@gmail.com