ONE MONTH

Director’s statement

One of the differences between Eastern Europe and the so-called Western World, is that where I come from children stay at home, living with their parents until they are 30, 40, sometimes forever (while the “children of the West” leave their homes when they go to College for instance). The reason behind this fact was first an economic one – not enough money and lack of available accommodation during the Communism - but that did not change once the regime collapsed. On the contrary, it turned into a norm (I officially left home at 38, when I got married, so go figure). That was the starting point of ONE MONTH.  And while that story could very well be a drama - social realism from Eastern Europe is kind of trendy now - I chose a different genre to tell it. ONE MONTH will be a low-key comedy, following the life of a 40-year-old artist, who has one month to find a father for her future child, in order to keep her present life. One month, that will help her finally grow up and find love.

Producer's statement

I have a clear plan how I want to finance ONE MONTH and make the film, but I do not entirely rely on the Bulgarian part of it any longer (therefore I have a backup plan as well). We have applied for development funding at the National Film Center and we recently received it (10,225 Euro). The summer will be dedicated to script and project development. ONE MONTH's script editor Christian Routh and I, plan on revising two drafts by the end of the year together.
We will apply for low-budget production support in Bulgaria. Our co-producers - MANDRAGORA and DOPPELGANGER - will apply for co-production funding in Romania and Sweden.
If none of the above works, we will still do the film – MANDRAGORA and DOPPELGANGER will help with the post-production, while VIKTORIA FILMS covers the shooting of ONE MONTH (no budget), same as we did with EASTERN PLAYS by Kamen Kalev, that I executive produced. We believe ONE MONTH will be a success.