Bulgarian Short Film Awarded at Sundance Festival
Text by Ekaterina Petrova
The five-minute film was included in the Sundance Short Film Festival Program, and was the first Bulgarian participant in almost two decades to take part in the prestigious forum for independent cinema, which takes place this year between January 15 and 25 in four cities in the state of Utah.
Omelette, which was created as part of the film anthology 15 released to mark the 15th anniversary of the prestigious weekly newspaper Capital, was dedicated to the year 1996 and told the story of a young woman struggling to make ends meet. The film stars another young Bulgarian director – Svetla Tsotsorkova.
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The production was one of eight to be awarded Honourable Mentions in Short Filmmaking, while the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking was awarded to Short Term 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and the Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking was given to Lies, directed by Jonas Odell.
According to the Sundance official website, this year the Festival's Short Film Program comprised a record 96 short films from a total of 5,632 submissions, from US and international filmmakers. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance in Utah.
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