National Film Center (Bulgaria)

Executive Agency National Film Center
2-A, Dondukov blvd.
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria

Phone:	+359 2- 9883 831
Fax:	+359 2- 9873 626 +359 2- 980 9920
Mail:	nfc@nfc.bg adonev@nfc.bg
Web:	www.nfc.bg

Executive Director of NFC:

Alexander Donev

EFP Representative:

Alexander Donev

National Film Center (Bulgaria)

The Executive Agency National Film Center (EA NFC) is an administration implementing the Cinema Industry Law (CIL). The main functions of the Agency are to finance film production, to support the distribution and exhibition of films, to manage the promotion of Bulgarian films within the country and abroad, to keep the register under CIL, to stimulate the development of film culture.

EA NFC administers producer's rights of Bulgarian films, when granted such rights under an act or a contract.

EA NFC represents Bulgaria at the Board of management of Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe. NFC is the coordinator for Bulgaria of the European Audiovisual Observatory and of the MEDIA Plus Program of the EU. The national MEDIA Desk Bulgaria is operating within the NFC.

For the creation, the distribution and the preservation of Bulgarian films NFC collaborates closely with the Bulgarian National TV, the Bulgarian National Film Archives and the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers.

EA NFC is the organizer of the Festival of Bulgarian Feature Film Golden Rose /Varna and the Festival of Bulgarian Documentary and Animation Film Golden Rhyton /Plovdiv. Under its initiative and with the efforts of its team since 1996, the International Film Festival of European Co-productions EURO FILM FEST is held in Sofia.

The Bulgarian National Film Centre has been an EFP member since May 2005.

"EFP is the perfect tool for making new Bulgarian Cinema visible not only in Berlin or Cannes, but from Pusan to Toronto as well." Alexander Donev