ARTE URBANA COLLECTIF is an artistic collective based in Sofia, Bulgaria. The collective was created in 2016 by Ralitsa Assenova (programmer and project coordinator) and Dimitar Uzunov (producer and theatre director) who later were joined by other artists and cultural managers from Bulgaria. The collective organizes cultural events (festival, educational forums, theatre performances) in Bulgaria and aims to create an international artistic and cultural dynamic in the country. Arte Urbana Collectif runs two big events: Meetings of Young European Cinema in Sofia, festival dedicated to the first films and the young audience, and Summer Scriptwriting Camp, residence for authors from all over the world, held in various locations in Bulgaria. Arte Urbana is partner of various international projects and supported by important institutions such as Sofia municipality and its cultural program, National Cultural Fund, Institut français de Bulgarie and the Embassy of France in Bulgaria, Espaço Camões Sofia and the Embassy of Portugal in Bulgaria, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, British Council, the Bulgarian national film archive etc. Arte Urbana Collectif coordinates the programme for cinema education Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse for Bulgaria since 2017.
Ralitsa Assenova
co-founder Graduated from the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 in Theatre and Cinema Studies and from the University of Bologna, where she wrote a research paper on the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ralitsa Assenova has worked on many cultural projects both in France and in Bulgaria. She also has experience in the field of cultural journalism and has specialized in European policies and cultural projects. In the past four years, she is lead organizer and director of the festival Meetings of Young European Cinema in Sofia, Bulgaria and coordinator of the project CinEd – European Cinema Education for Youth for Bulgaria.
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Dimitar Uzunov
co-founder Holds MS degree in Geology from University of Sofia and later a MA in Applied Theatre Studies from University Paris 8. He also studied acting, theatre directing and theatre management in Brooklyn college (CUNY). In 2008 he founded Famille Mundi theatre company in Paris and since then he directs the productions of the company. He is the lead organiser and director of Summer Scriptwriting Base project of Arte Urbana Collectif and of the platform "Theatre & Science", Bulgarian hub of Jet Propulsion Theatre. He recently directed the first theatre production of the collective, "George Caplan" by Frederic Sonntag.
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Vassilena Badzharova
expert Cinema critic (she studied cinema in the Bulgarian National Academy of Cinema and Theatre and in the University of Stirling - UK), a screenwriter and a mentor in numerous youth programs related to cinema and other arts. Since 2017 she is a pedagogical expert within two programs for cinema education for youth - CinEd and Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse. She is also part of the team of Meetings of Young European Cinema coordinating the programme for the young audience.
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Nikola Nalbantov
set & video designer Holds a MFA in Set Design: Visual Performance program from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. Winner of Icarus Award for Scenography in 2010 for the set design of "The Wicked Man" from the Four Rooms Project. Winner together with Evgenia Serbeva in 2010 of a prize from the international competition "eDward - The Young Filmmaker's Award" for the 3D movie "... Priceless ..." In 2013, he is nominated, together with Elena Shopova, for the Icarus Award for Scenography for “Protext 5: On Time” visual environment. He has been set designer and video-artist of many theatre and dance performances - "Carnival.com", "Jump", "Madam Mishima", "Pandora". He has participated in several of the OSAIC "36 Monkeys” projects - "Reya", "Protext", "Praehidno", "The Time of the Quarks".
He is the set designer & videoartist of Arte Urbana Collectif’s productions “George Kaplan” and “The Long Way to the Stars”. More at nikolanalbantov.com |
Alexandrina Al-Djassem
coordinator Passionate art lover, she became part of Arte Urbana in 2016. Alexandrina holds MSc in Genetics and she wins the Bulgarian FameLab competition in 2011. She has worked as a journalist in Bulgarian National Radio. She is looking passionately to reveal the beauty of science through the art. She loves to be surrounded from people making art and people passionate about science.
Alexandrina coordinates the platform Theatre & Science and Summer Scriptwriting Base. |