Ivaylo Simidchiev


Ivaylo P. Simidchiev 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 – director, screenwriter, producer. About people left after the Soviet Nuclear Testing Program at former Semipalatinsk Test Site The Last Journey – director, screenwriter, editor, producer Documentary. An older woman travels to say goodbye to her relatives.Fury – screenwriter, director, producerThe Unseen – Production: Bulgarian National Television, Bulgaria Director 27 min. Documentary. A professional night club bouncer founds a martial arts club among blind schoolchildren.On Suicide – 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 – director, screenwriter, editor. Follows six young heroin-dependent people over two years.3:33 A.M. – 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 – 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 – 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.
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" :
For "Lemon is Lemon" :