04/18/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/18/2023 08:57
April 18, 2023 - Montreal - National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Borislav Kolev's feature docTheodore Ushev: Unseen Connections (Theodore Ushev: liens invisibles) will open on May 19 at theCinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal, in its original Bulgarian and English version with French subtitles. The film is co-produced by Projector Ltd. and the NFB. Named the world's most influential animator of the last 25 years by a group of leading animation critics, journalists, curators and festival directors, Theodore Ushev is a prolific, groundbreaking and Oscar-nominated director whose films have won more than 200 awards, including the Annecy Cristal. Ushev was born in Bulgaria and since 1999 has lived in Montreal, where he's directed 15 films at the NFB. In this documentary he reveals his inner creative universe, formed by a half-century of personal experience acquired in a constantly changing world.
Theodore Ushev will attend some of the screenings. His first live-action feature, the Bulgaria/Canada co-production Phi 1.618, will have its theatrical release on May 5.
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"The goal of this film is to help viewers see the unseen connections between key moments in Theodore Ushev's personal and artistic life. […] A man looking back at his path from child to adult-through childhood games, maturity, love, separation, life-changing decisions, the loneliness of both geographical and spiritual emigration, the creative drive-[in a] film [that] offers the essential balance between sad and funny, serious and merry. As seen in every good artwork. As seen in life." - Borislav Kolev, Director
About the film
Theodore Ushev: Unseen Connections (Theodore Ushev: liens invisibles) by Borislav Kolev
Co-produced by Borislav Kolev, Maria Landova and Eli Kovalev for Projector Ltd., and Marc Bertrand for the NFB's French Program Animation Studio
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/theodore-ushev-unseen-connections
About the director
Borislav Kolev is a leading Bulgarian director, screenwriter and producer. His debut documentary, Stoichkov (2012), broke box office records and screened around the world. It was followed by award-winning docs, including Salto Mortale (2015), The Eye of the Minotaur (2017) and Rock'n'Roll (2019). Theodore Ushev: Unseen Connections (Theodore Ushev: liens invisibles) is his latest feature documentary.
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