Bulgaria's entry for the 2012 Oscars: TILT
Bulgaria's National Film Centre said on September 16 that it put forth TILT, a coming-of-age love story set against the backdrop of the changing social and political landscape of the early 1990s, as the Bulgarian entry in the best foreign-language film category for the 2012 Academy Awards.
TILT, named after the pinball arcade that four skateboarder friends seek to open in post-communist Bulgaria, is one of the most successful (at the box office) films from the recent revival of Bulgarian cinema, with an estimated 200 000 people viewing it.
Directed by Viktor Chouchkov Jr, the film was produced by Borislav Chouchkov, while Viktor Chouchkov has written the film's original score. Funding for the film had come from the National Film Centre, Bulgarian National Television and Germany's Ostlicht Filmproduktion.
TILT has been a critical success, finishing second in the viewer's choice vote at the Seattle International Film Festival. It is scheduled to be screened at film festivals in Santa Barbara, London (Raindance), Montreal and Singapore.
Bulgaria's most recent high-profile best foreign-language film Oscar entry, The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner, which has received more than a dozen different awards in and outside Bulgaria, made it to the final shortlist of nine candidates for the 2010 Academy Awards, but did not make it on the list of five nominees.
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