Liza Boeva


Liza Boeva is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.
She lectures on the history of arts and co-founded the educational platform Filizi 33.
Boeva is also a member of the European Film Academy. Her documentary William Shakespeare: The Most Famous Person Who Never Existed was noted by the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition in connection with the Shakespeare authorship question.

Early life and education

Elizaveta Boeva completed her secondary education at the Italian Lyceum in Sofia in 1997. She earned a master's degree in Journalism and Public Relations in 2001 and another in History of Arts in 2003 at the Saint Petersburg State University in Russia. She received a master's degree in Film and TV Directing in 2006 from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Since 2006, Liza Boeva has lectured on the history of arts in Europe and the United States,
with a focus on the Italian and Northern Renaissance.
She has been a lecturer at the New Bulgarian University since 2011. In the same year, she received her PhD with a dissertation on the Beat Generation. In 2016, Boeva was promoted to associate professor. She has also been a guest lecturer at institutions such as Varna Free University Chernorizets Hrabar, as well as at cultural centers, museums, and art galleries

Career

Film career

She is a screenwriter and director of documentaries and feature films, recognized with international awards. Among them: The Summer of Mona Lisa (the movie was bought for broadcasting by the Bulgarian National Television. I was Jack Kerouac, ''William Shakespeare: The Most Famous Person Who Never Existed.'' The movie was bought for broadcasting by the Bulgarian National Television.

Educational work

In 2017 she created the educational platform on History of Arts Filizi 33. Some of the recent courses are on: Italian and Northern Renaissance, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel The Elder, Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde.

Publications

Boeva is also the author of articles and critical reviews on the history of arts.

Filmography (selected)

Work titleYearReferences
The Garden of Earthly Delights. Eden2023
William Shakespeare: The Most Famous Person Who never Existed2018
William Shakespeare. Fragments of plays2016
Donkey's Tail2014
I was Jack Kerouac2014
The Summer of Mona Lisa2013
Cosmos2013
Vera2012

Director of Theatrical Performances (selected)

TitleDate / VenueReferences
Who's Like Me! — starring Izko Finzi7 June 2025, National Palace of Culture
From my point of view — starring Izko Finzi21 December 2024, National Palace of Culture
Jubilee of Izko Finzi — starring Izko Fintzi25 April 2023, National Palace of Culture
Master and Margarita. Bulgakov and the Authority — lecture-spectacle 20 November 2022, The Little City Theatre 'Off The Channel'
The Black Square of Malevich — lecture-spectacle 28 November 2021, The Little City Theatre 'Off The Channel'
All the worlds' a stage — spectacle 11 October 2018, Bulgaria Concert Hall
Who killed Romeo and Juliet? — lecture-spectacle 14 October 2018, City Art Marc Center

Family

Elizaveta Boeva was born August 22nd 1978 in Sofia in the family of the engineers Liubov and Plamen Boev. She has a younger brother Boris Boev, PhD on History, awarded with the First Prize "St. Paisiy Hilendarski" state award from the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria and with the Third Prize "Young Scientist of the Year"
In 2011 she married the actor Izko Finzi. Their daughter Matilda was born in 2017.