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Milena
KALEVA

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If you find your best friend, you have found yourself... Some people don't succeed in finding themselves. They suffer of autism and the impossibility of creating normal relations deprives them of cognition of one of the biggest mysteries - friendship. Ivo is a 16-years old boy with diagnosis of Asperger syndrome -- disfunction of development of autistic specter. Incapable to adapt to surrounding world Ivo often falls a victim to aggression and misunderstanding of his coevals. After the consecutive accident at school when Ivo has got lost and has been found in helpless condition, his mother takes him to hippotherapy. There he meets Darcy -- a mare, trained to work with children, raising problems. Their meeting and their relations will change Ivo's life.

Me, you,nobody else

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„Time for tales” is a project for a television series of 6, each episode 30 minutes long, targeted at teenage and child audience. In the show, besides the actors, there will be used puppets, like in the Jim Hanson's “Storyteller” where these series are inspired from, as well as animated characters. There will be visual Fxs. Each episode will tell a story from a different country – the bulgarian “The three brothers and the golden apple”, the japanese “Ice laces” and “A story about the King and the Sorceress” and others. The main idea is to give a fun and easy way for the children to get a feel of the different cultures and values brought to them through the fairy tales told. For the project a 2 min and 20 sec. trailer is shot, in which we have included the most vivid moments from the japanese, bulgarian and the archplot of the series - The story for the king and the sorceress. SYNOPSIS In every episode a fairytale from a different country will be told while the storyteller will be the gathering link between them. There will be an archplot, that will develop in unison with the stories told in the tales of the different episodes. The storyteller in the series is a foreign sorceress that had come in the kingdom with the biggest library in the world. In this library there was an ancient book, that the king couldn't read – The Golden book. It held the secrets of power and wisdom. The Sorceress asked the king to read the book for him, in return she would make him wise and powerful. So she started to read him the tales from the book, each one embroiled with a wise moral. But The King felt the Sorceress's bad influence on him, for she wanted his kingdom. As the wise man that he was, he found a way to send her away without a direct confrontation – he sent her for The Black book far far away with the hope to never see her again. But she manages to get this fabled Black book, becomes stronger and stronger and returns to finally take the kingdom from the king. All the soldiers of the king are no match for her new acquired powers, she defys them easily. She then stands before the king, all sad and lonely, while she is vengeful and ready to exact her revenge... only to understand that one can not punish his beloved.

Time for tales

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Short Bio
Currently, Milena Kaleva is the co-founder and CEO of a small film company 4Xfilms Ltd. Milena Kaleva is a producer and director, having graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts with a M.A. in Management in screen arts and specialization of Film and Television Directing. Milena Kaleva has a B.Sc. in Tourism from the University of National and World Economy – Sofia. She worked as a producer and reporter for tv Skat and Nova tv for five years. From 2008 to 2011 Milena Kaleva worked as a public relations officer.
Filmography:
2012 “DOODLE”,18 min, short feature, production co – 4XFilms Ltd. in co-production with NATFA, with the support of Bulgarian national film center and American Foundation, dir.Lyubomir Pechev, producer M. Kaleva
- selection at Short Film Corner Cannes Court Métrage | Festival de Cannes 2012 (registration.cannescourtmetrage.com/filmFiche2.Aspx?id=55039501)
- selections at Trieste Film festival 2013-Italy, Bulgarian Feature Film Festival Golden Rose 2012, In the palace International short film festival 2012-Bulgaria, Sofia International Film Fest 2013-Bulgaria (siff.bg/index.php?page=movies&id=1623&lang=bg)
- Award Best bulgarian short film at Early bird international film festival 2012
Publications
- kultura.bg/bg/article/view/20350
- duma.bg/node/40671

2012 “TIME FOR TALES”, 2 min, trailer for children's TV series, production co – 4XFilms Ltd., director and producer M.Kaleva
Publications
- novinar.bg/?act=news&act1=det&mater=MzUxMDsxOA%3D%3D
- 24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=799323
- paper.standartnews.com/bg/article.php?article=358772

2012 “STRANGERS”, 12 min, short feature, production co – 4XFilms Ltd., director and producer M.Kaleva
- selection at In the palace International short film festival 2012-Bulgaria
Publication
- dnevnik.bg/buntart/2012/03/24/1794281_nepoznati/?pic=1#picture
2010 “SOS! Save the education now!”, 22 sec, TV advertising spots for popularization of the changes in the Higher Education Law, clients - Ministry of Education and science and the GERB political party, director and producer M.Kaleva
Publication
- paper.standartnews.com/bg/article.php?article=316864
2009 “ME, YOU, NOBODY ELSE”, 18 min, graduation short feature, production co – 4XFilms Ltd.,director and producer M.Kaleva
Awards: - Best bulgarian short film at Early bird international film festival 2010
- special mention at Violence among Young People Festival 2010
- distributed in over 3500 copies to all Bulgarian schools
Publications
- novatv.bg/news/view/2009/12/18/4213/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5-%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82-%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BF%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8F-%D0%B2-%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BC/
- bnt.bg/bg/productions/71/edition/11499/denjat_zapochva_30_dekemvri_2010
- Cinema magazine, March 2011
- Face magazine, October 2010
2008 “SUNNY BEACH – THE TOWN OF THE SUN”, advertising, 15 min, production co - Pirina Production House and Sunny Beach Ltd.
“JOIN IN THE HORO!”, documentary, 25 min, production co - Pirina Production House
“THE PERFECT ONE”, short feature, 4 min, adaptation of A. P. Chekhov's play “Three Sisters”, producer – NATFA
2007 “THE MEDIA MAFIA”, documentary, 30 min, production co - SKAT Television
“THE LONGEST HORO”, documentary, 20 min, production co SKAT Television

Education

National Academy of theatre and film arts, Bulgaria
- M.A. in Management in screen arts
- specialization of Film and Television Directing

University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
- B.Sc. in Tourism

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