Biography

Slav Velkov is a Bulgarian filmmaker whose work has reached 1M+ people and has screened at international film festivals, like Soho International Film Festival (2023), Big Apple Film Festival (2023, 2021), and semi-finalist at the Academy-award qualifying Flickers' RIFF. His short video Change Bulgaria had 4.5K+ shares and 1M+ views on Facebook and inspired young people to stand up against governmental corruption. Most recently, Slav interned at The Wall Street Journal's video team and produced his latest live-action film, Statement 6 (in post production).

Slav has appeared on Bulgarian National Television, Bulgaria on Air TV, and other prominent media as part of his films' marketing campaigns. Slav holds a BA degree in Film & TV and Visual Arts from Fordham University, where he graduated summa cum laude and received the James Storey Award for artistic excellence and the William F. DiPietra Film Award.

Slav's quest in art is finding an honest and universal beauty, starting with the individual but ultimately hinting at a transcendent formal truth. He references the past millennium's three major artistic and ideological movements: monotheism, humanism, and paganism. Similarly to Early Renaissance art, he depicts humans in dimensional and idiosyncratic ways. However, he places his subjects in larger and often abstract formal structures to reconcile humanist anthropocentrism with Medieval asceticism. He also employs expressive cinematography and montage to infuse a personal and romantic spirit into his work.
- IMDb mini biography by: Slav Velkov