Todor Dinov(1919-2004)
- Director
- Writer
- Art Director
Todor Dinov was a director, artist, animator. Todor Georgiev Dinov was born on July 24, 1919 in Dedeagach (today Alexandroupolis), Greece. He graduated from the State Industrial School in Plovdiv, then he studied theater's decoration in Art Academy (1938-1943), then animation in the class of Ivan Ivanov-Vano at State Cinema Institute in Moscow (1947-1951). He was a member of Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers, Union of Bulgarian Artist. He received the titles "Honored Artist (1963), "People's Artist" (1970) an the Orders: "Cyril and Methodius" (1959), (1962); People's Republic of Bulgaria "(1969); " Stara Planina "(1999). Dinov defined painting as "one of the most cherished experiences." With the thesis of Todor Dinov, the movie "Yunak Marko" from 1954, Bulgarian animation comes from the realm of the amateur - the first Bulgarian professional animated film. He made the connection between animation film and Bulgarian folklore (folk epic about King Marko ). His next film "Careful angel" shows the development in the style of drawing and thinking of Dinov: naturalistic image is replaced with a fresh pattern of caricature and linear story line - with an unexpected ending. In 1964, Dinov created his iconic movie " Team Flower " robbed the cheers of festival of animation films in Leipzig, Buenos Aires, Ankara, Vienna, Chicago and Cannes. In 1967, "Team Flower" was named best Bulgarian children's film . Other famous cartoons of Dinov are "Lightning", "Jealousy", "Epigram", "Prometheus 20", "Drum", "Paris Rain". Besides painted cinema Dinov is director and screenwriter of several feature films - " Iconostasis ", " Powder Primer ," " Sin of Maltitsa". There are numerous appearances as a cartoonist, illustrator , schedule , painter and placard . He worked with techniques: watercolor , pastel , oil paint . Dinov is one of the founders of the first Studios cartoons in Bulgaria. He was a founder of the specialty Animation Directing at the National Academy , where his students are animators and directors as Donyo Donev , Stoyan Doukov , Ivan Andonov , Ivan Veselinov . In 1999, for his outstanding contribution to the development of Bulgarian culture was honored with the "Stara Planina" I degree. He died on June 17, 2004 in Sofia.
