BINKA: TO TELL A STORY ABOUT SILENCE –
(BINKA: DA RAZKAZESH PRIKAZKA ZA MALCHANIETO)

Color, 48 min, 2006, Documentary; Bulgaria/USA
In Bulgarian with English sub-titles

Written and Directed by: Elka Nikolova
Producer: Stanimir Trifonov
Production Company: VREME Film Studio
Cinematographer: Vanyo Georgiev/Hristo Bakalov B.A.C.
Music: Rumen Bojadjiev/Rumen Bojadjiev Jr.
Cast: Victoria Krumova, Paraskeva Djukelova, Linda Ruseva

Bulgarian director Binka Zhelyazkova (b.1923) never shrank from controversy. A film pioneer, she was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria’s Communist dictatorship. Her allegorical and urban dramas examined human rights, artistic freedom and
the legitimacy of the political system itself. Intercutting riveting scenes from Binka’s films, rare archival footage, and candid interviews with former Bulgarian studio executives and film professionals, this provocative portrait reveals the pressures and complexities that arise when art is made under totalitarianism.
 

Director Elka Nikolova
Nikolova served as Program Coordinator for the 2nd Bulgarian Film Festival, NYC (2001), and worked as an Associate Producer at Great Jones Productions in NYC. Currently she works as an Associate for Dateline NBC and The Today Show in New York. She studied film production at The New School University, New York, completing her MA in Media Studies in 2001. From her Master`s thesis, Women Directors on Women in Bulgarian Cinema, she developed the concept for a documentary about Binka Zhelyaskova.

Filmography
The Warmth of My Home, documentary, 1995
Prelude to Yesterday, short/experimental, 1998
My Mother Wore Pink, short/drama, 2006

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Elka Nikolova
elkanikol@yahoo.com
binkadoc@yahoo.com
www.binkadoc.com


Pictures/info/etc.
http://bgdoctor.com/The_Filmmakers%20.htm
http://www.binkadoc.com