SANTIAGO
animation 15’45’’ © 2021
Somewhere in the North… A film about the friendship between an Inuit child and an old fisherman.
The story is inspired by Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’
production KOULEV FILM PRODUCTION
with the support of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER
producer ASSIA KOVANOVA
screenplay ANDREY KOULEV
director ANDREY KOULEV
art directors ASSIA KOVANOVA, ANDREY KOULEV
music PETAR DUNDAKOV
animation APOSTOL STOYANOV; KALIN NACHEV
compositing, editing ASSIA KOVANOVA
sound VLADISLAV BOYADJIEV
piano PETAR DUNDAKOV
song VLADISLAV BOYADJIEV
studio KVArt
Festivals and Awards
2022 BULGARIAN FILM ACADEMY AWARDS – BEST ANIMATED FILM DIRECTOR and BEST ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF ANIMATED FILM
2021 24th OLYMPIA International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Pyrgos, Greece – BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM AWARD
2021 SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Sofia, Bulgaria – BEST BULGARIAN SHORT FILM AWARD
2021 25th GOLDEN RHYTON National Film Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria – GRAN PRIX for ANIMATED FILM
2021 MILAN GOLD AWARDS, May – GOLD AWARD for ANIMATION
2021 IRISH ANIMATION AWARDS, Dublin – NOMINATION for Best International Short Film Award