Tanya Chuturkova

filmmaker

<p>Currently residing in Los Angeles, my journey on the road to filmmaking started a long time ago when I spent years and years training myself to be a professional spectator. Not a lot of good movies made the TV screens in Bulgaria, my home country, but everything that was on I watched and examined. After finishing high school I decided that time has come to put all those years of studying how to and how not to make a film into some more productive action.</p> <p>A year later I found myself in Spain, a lot closer to where good cinema was made. Madrid was charming and inspiring, and presented me with the first opportunity of some hands-on filmmaking. But mostly I learned film history, film studies, film theories&hellip; generally how movies are supposed to be made. After receiving my Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Audiovisual Communications from the Complutense University of Madrid, I felt that it was the perfect time to make one more jump towards the big film industry and see for myself if any of those theories were true.</p> <p>Next autumn I was in New York, shooting my first mise-en-scene with a 16mm camera. I had the privilege to make my first steps in directing under the supervision of my amazing directing teacher Paul Warner. He thought me and my classmates all about working with actors, finding the theme of your film, the truth of the story and how the esthetics affect the perception and therefore the response of the audience, and many more other things that opened our eyes for what filmmaking is really about.</p> <p>The second year of the Masters in Fine Arts program of the New York Film Academy lead me to Los Angeles and to the heart of the film industry. The things got really real- sound stages, bigger crews, bigger trucks, bigger projects. My studies are about to end as in a couple of months I&rsquo;ll be finishing my thesis project and with that I&rsquo;ll finally be out in the real world. Year after year there has been a new beginning for me&hellip; And many more to come.&nbsp;</p>

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