Lyubomir Halachev

Lyubomir Halachev is a producer, director and scriptwriter. He graduated from the State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow in 1972; specialized in documentary cinema at Centro sperimentale (Rome), in France and in Denmark. In his forty-year-long career in film industry, he has worked as a scriptwriter for shorts, documentary director and producer. In 1994 he set up Kadiak Film, a film and TV production company. Founder of the Association of Film Producers in Bulgaria. Full professor at National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia. He was a Rector of the Academy. He has made more than hundred documentary and short award-winning films. Now he produces documentaries and TV dramas for Bulgarian National Television. He published seven books on different aspects of the filmmaking process ("Documentary Film: Step by Step" is his latest one).