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So, I guess we welcome Gillian Horvat s I Blame Society with open arms, and then maybe appreciate just what the cash-poor and idea-rich Horvat has done here. This is a film gone meta-within-meta, as Horvat, playing herself as a struggling film-maker, filming herself planning the perfect murder as a plot for a mockumentary and then committing . anything but. Horvat s journey, from frustrated writer/director, enduring meetings with exactly the type of vapid young male dude-bros we all secretly imagine do run large parts of Hollywood, to stalker and then – possibly – accidental killer of her own best friend, is traced out in a series of mostly hell-funny and oddly likeable vignettes.
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Itâs to debut director Yavor Petkovâs credit that, with his coke-hoovering Balkans wideboy Danny, he has created an extremely annoying cinematic character to rival Steven Stifler of American Pie, Jim Carreyâs Cable Guy and Jar Jar Binks. Petkov however, has done it on purpose â and his mockumentary about a hipster film crew following around this smalltown councillor-cum-petty mafioso, played by Dimo Alexiev, blossoms into a deeply uncomfortable viewing experience.
The set-up is this: Danny takes Susan (Kate Nichols) and her British crew under his wing to show them around his Bulgarian town. Ostensibly taking part in a documentary on money-laundering, this mean-faced braggart has no shame and operates an access-all-areas policy: they film him berating the local âpeasantsâ, scope out the chocolate factory heâs planning, and watch him bully a bank official. If they didnât already know theyâd snagg
Yavor Petkov has to say about making independent cinema and about
Danny being only the second Bulgarian production or co-production to be released exclusively online.
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Cineuropa: You say that you are a bit of an outsider in the Bulgarian film industry. How is it for an outsider to make a film there?
Yavor Petkov: It was easier than I had anticipated. The team in Bulgaria arranged great locations, costumes, props and so on and it didnât seem to bother them that I was coordinating everything remotely. The actual production was very smooth, which allowed us to play around and many of those unscripted bits made it to the final cut. However, being an outsider also meant I was locked out of opportunities like development workshops, labs, co-production forums (I did apply to literally everything in Europe) and of course government grants, subsidies and sponsorship of any kindâ¦
Yavor Petkov has to say about making independent cinema and about
Danny being only the second Bulgarian production or co-production to be released exclusively online.
(The article continues below - Commercial information)
Cineuropa: You say that you are a bit of an outsider in the Bulgarian film industry. How is it for an outsider to make a film there?
Yavor Petkov: It was easier than I had anticipated. The team in Bulgaria arranged great locations, costumes, props and so on and it didnât seem to bother them that I was coordinating everything remotely. The actual production was very smooth, which allowed us to play around and many of those unscripted bits made it to the final cut. However, being an outsider also meant I was locked out of opportunities like development workshops, labs, co-production forums (I did apply to literally everything in Europe) and of course government grants, subsidies and sponsorship of any kindâ¦