PETER BOIADZHIEFF

Peter Boiadzhieff is an American film maker and actor of Bulgarian origin. He was fascinated with movies at early age, because this was only way to escape from reality and used your imagination to create stories and characters. He was born on 1974 in the capital city Sofia in Bulgaria. Growing up in a small-town Petrich by his grandparents. The town is border between Greece and Macedonia, a former SFR Yugoslavia, located in Eastern Europe. The town was place of the famous oracle 'Vanga' the famous 'Spartacus' who was fighting for freedom in early days. He created his first movie as a high school project.

Later he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, USA where he helped some of the film makers with their film projects. He joined local filming group Fork Shop where he able to work in different roles as camera operator, sound mixer, lights, even acting. He took the Jeff Justice Comedy Workshoppe three times and able to perform at The Punch Line Comedy club in Atlanta. He directed several short films and created several rafting videos. His short film The Secret Project 53 has been officially selected more than 15 times and won the award of the Best First Time Director in Hollywood Blood Horror Festival. Also, the series Braaking Newz has been nominated 5 times as semi-finalist in category best comedy and parody.

He worked with the greatest actors like Sonia Suarez Alonzo, Paul Black, Brittany Black, Ruby Singleton, and many others. He continues to work on his coming project in Atlanta Georgia and Ocoee Tennessee, like The Reporter from Ocoee with Love, I Love America Comedy, and Coffee with Kriss Boiadzhieff interviewing Stephen at the Fork Shop.

5. Why should distributors buy your film?
This is more of sales question and it is very important, but my goal was different when I created this film for entertainment purpose.
The best way to find out is let them watch the film and decide by themselves, here is the web site https://www.braakingnewz.com .

6. How would you specify your work? What characterizes your film?
I would like to say that my film “Braaking Newz” is a comedy, or parody that the two characters the Comedian and the President are living in a fantasy world and like to have recognition by the audience. If can specify in one statement a comedy where the fantasy has no limits, you can be whatever you want to be!

7. Why did you decide to become a filmmaker?
As a kid I did not have these goals, I want to be a doctor, I want to be accountant, I want to be a film maker when I grew up. I was just going with the flow, playing games outside, going to the river, to the maintains, no cell phones no Instagram, no other things …, yes, we had a tv black and white that had just two channels. That it is folks just 2 channels and I was very happy because right now there are too many choices, multiple streaming services, what I should watch first this series on Netflix, Amazon, Disney plus, Roku, NBC. It was great the old days, but old days are over we are in the new digital age and we as a film maker should take advantage of the possible opportunities to create new content.
I am a software developer and love solving problems and make the customers happy, also I love creating films starting from the script, casting the actor, filming, editing and completing the final cut. There are is a lot of creativity and in the film, you can create characters that you cannot have in the real life. Think about film making that is another parallel universe and you are the person who can create that universe, as someone said whatever you can dreamed you can do it. The film making is giving me that opportunity.
In other words, my entire my life is like a movie for me, starting as a kid in my small house with fire place, beautiful cold winter, hot summer, going to school, then to army, moving to capital city Sofia, and finally arriving in America the land of big dreams. I probably should be nominated for Oscar, but this is not my goal. Let other people fight to win all these awards, I will catch the train and enjoy the ride of creating films for fun and entertainment and I hope to become a great film director in the near future.

8. Who is your greatest role model?
I really wanted to have a role model but having just one is like you are limiting yourself to one person. I grew up with my grandparents and it was not easy, but it makes me to form my own decision, which other kids with family had a lack to make it, because their parents made the decisions for them. Instead to sorry for myself, I had the freedom to choose when I was 10 years old. I created my own role model, I got the best of different people, rich, poor, criminals, women, men, children, and etc. That helped to have a unique role model prototype that helped to achieve my goals. Also, it is helping me in my journey with film creation, for example you always hear it is very difficult scene cannot be done, then I go and say yes it could be done in few hours and will be better than you expected. That unique role model helped me achieve that.

13. What do you consider most important about filming?
Everything in filming is very important like, story, lighting, camera angle, and etc., but from my prospective the timing of shooting the scenes, the entire film. Because, on the set the time is flying and it is important not just to me as a film maker, but also to all people who are part of my film.
If we can learn to better manage the time, that it is not easy when your imagination is going wild and you want to film the same scene 53 times. We will become greater film makers when we know how mage the time on the set.

14. Which film technique do you consider the best?
I believe that any techniques that you decide to use in you film are the best. For the camera, I love to use long shot, medium, and close up, sometimes extremely close-up. In some cases, using the Rack Shot is very effective, where the camera shifts the focus while holding the same shot to bring another object into focus. Also, setting up the lighting for the scene and sound.

15. How would you rate current filmmaking?
I really do not like to rate my film making it is better someone else to rate it, even when it is very constructive. If I can add the rating from 1 to 10, I can rate myself … Well, I begun creating films for fun and entertainment and it moving to became as profession in the coming years.
In the order as one-man camera and crew, I can rate myself to the greatest rate, from writing the script, casting the actors, finding a place to film, funding the project, filming, editing and finally distributing on Vimeo. I still have a lot to learn as film maker, but lets the audience decide who to rate me or my films.

16. What can make you angry in a movie?
 I am not quite sure what the angry is meaning in the context of the movie, and someone said that this movie “Falling Down” 1993 can make you angry because of the man’s bad day played by Michael Douglas and how he reaches his breaking point. I love that movie and watched at least 15 times and love it, but never makes me angry. However, sometimes the true story movies make me angry. For example, Young Rock where Dwayne Johnson tells his stories when he was young. Well, everybody know you are famous and we do not need to know how you struggle to make it there and I do not believe anything what they show in your movie, but I will watch it anyway.