About Geopoly

Graduated in Film Studies from the Sofia National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts she first worked as a publicist for different cultural publications. In 1993-1994, she was both Bulgaria’s National representative at Eurimages and Head of the FIPRESCI section within the Bulgarian Film Critics Association. In 1995, together with Georgy Cholakov, she co-founded Geopoly, a film production company. In 1999, she became correspondent to Variety International Film Guide; since 2007 to 2023, she is Bulgaria’s correspondent to the online publication Film New Europe. In 2014, she founded her second company, Geopoly Film, through which she continues producing films in parallel with Geopoly.

Represented by Pavlina Jeleva, experienced as co-owner of Geopoly OOD, founded in 1995, activity is based on Pavlina’s constant efforts in attracting foreign partners for her Bulgarian projects and involving herself in successful foreign projects as a minority co-producer.

Geopoly’s ambitions are to goals, namely to produce creative and artistically valuable features, documentaries and animated films from Bulgaria, the Balkan region and Europe.

Geopoly works in close collaboration with the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Bulgarian National Television, the Sofia Municipality, Eurimages and other public funding bodies.

Geopoly looks for discovering territories as it was with Bulgaria’s first co-productions with Turkey and Lithuania.

FILMS PRODUCED BY PAVLINA JELEVA THROUGH GEOPOLY FILM:

·      DIMITER SHISHMANOV: BUT TO THINK 2014, creative documentary written and directed by Raliza Dimitrova.

      Dimitar Shishmanov, son of Bulgarian writer and researcher Prof. Ivan Shishmanov, was a lawyer and diplomat, writer and politician, whose name was coercively wiped off in 1945. 

      The documentary lifts the curtain on the unjust obliteration, bringing this very interesting figure as closer as possible through his confessions and personal revelations.

     The film was awarded best film by the Union of the Bulgarian Film Makers. In 2015 it got the best production designer award by the Bulgarian Film Academy and was nominated best film, best director, best cinematographer.

·      REQUIEM FOR MRS J., 2016, Serbian – Bulgarian – North
Macedonian – French – Russian co-production, supported by Film Center Serbia,
Bulgarian National Film Center, Macedonian Film Fund, CNC, France, Eurimages, written and directed by Bojan Vuletic.

      Famous Serbian actress Mirjana Karanović is starring.

      When her family’s problems become overwhelming a woman starts planning to commit       suicide.

       The film became an important Balkan cooperation success and was critically acclaimed.

        The world premiere was in 2017 Berlinale’s Panorama Special programme. At the 21-st Sofia FF the film received the FIPRESCI award and at the 45-th Belgrade Film Fest it was awarded best film, best director, best script and best actress. The 17-th goEast Wiesbaden IFF awarded the film with its Grand Prix. Serbia selected it as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Films at the 90-th Academy awards.

·      A NEW LIFE 2018, Bulgarian – Canadian creative documentary, written & directed by Stefan Ivanov. Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center and the Canadian Film
Board. 

      A nostalgic-poetic documentary about a group of young emigrants to Canada, who left Bulgaria during the cold winter of 1990. They present the deep emotions of nearly 2000 young Bulgarians, who miraculously found themselves in the vast northern country, trying to accept it as their own.

      The film opened at the 22-nd Sofia Film Fest and was commercially released.

·       THE LITTLE MARQUISE 2021, creative documentary, written by Eliza
Gozeva, Teodora Doncheva, directed by Stanislav Donchev, cast Irina Miteva, Vasil Binev, selected: Love is Folly IFF, Sofia Summer Fest, official
competition of the III-rd International Documentary Historical Film Festival,
Burgas – Guild of the Historians award, Cinelibri IFF, competition Plovdiv
Golden Rhyton FF, Vassil Gendov Bulgarian Film Awards FF.   

A sincere and poetical biography of Fani Popova-Mutafova, considered as the best-selling Bulgarian historical fiction author ever.

·      SNOWDROPS AT THE END OF THE DAY 2022, fiction, short, written by Galina
D. Georgieva & Decho Taralezhkov, directed by Galina
D. Georgieva, cast Iliana Kodjabasheva, Velislav Pavlov, Ani Valchanova, Ivan Savov, supported by the Bulgarian National
Film Center,
selected 26 Sofia FF Award for Bulgarian short film competition, International
competition,62 Krakow FF.

In a dystopian world, a woman fighting for her right to state-assisted suicide finds a new purpose in life after her last three snowdrops are found capable of producing free energy for everyone.

·    A BOAT IN THE RAIN 2023, animated short, written & directed by artist Yoana Atanasova, supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center.

     A Woman and a Man are going through a breakup. Left alone, he remembers their dance of love. A storm comes and only a tiny folded boat may save them. However, the rough sea is full of dangers.