Alexander Metodiev

Alexander Metodiev is born in 1952, in Sofia, Bulgaria. He starts his movie career quite early, in 1969 when he is seventeen years old. He spends his first years in Bulgarian Studio for Feature Movies as a stunt player. He mainly does horse stunts. During that time he has the opportunity to double the main actress from the hit Bulgarian movie "The Goat Horn". In 1978 he gets married to his wife Yuliana Metodieva back than a teacher in literature and now the main editor of "Objective", the official magazine of Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. In 78' Metodiev becomes shooting manager and then line producer. Those are the years of production of some very famous Bulgarian TV series like "Captain Petko Vojvoda", "Home for Our Children" and "We Know the Day by Morning". In 1987, though in his thirties and already with two kids, he enrolls in the University for National and Global Economy where his major is Labor Organization and Economics. From 1987 to 1990 he works at the Creative Fund of Bulgarian Movie Makers. His positions there are: associate manager, deputy manager and manager of the Fund. In 1991, two years after the fall of communist regime in Bulgaria is founded the film producing company Radio Vision +. From 1996 to 2000 backed up by his knowledge and experience in film making Alexander Metodiev starts teaching in the recently opened New Bulgarian University. During the same years, till 2001, he is also a serious participant in business development of Boyana Film Studios at that time as manager of the film production department. Although hard for Bulgaria, the years between the end of 20th and the beginning of 21st century are the best for Alexander Metodiev as executive producer of many Italian movies shot in Bulgaria and as a supporter in the efforts for development of Bulgarian post-communist cinema. Between 2001 and 2008 the company Radio Vision + realizes some of its biggest projects and co-productions. Among them are the Italian movie "Weapon Craft", the American movie "Spartacus", the Russian mega production "Turkish Gambit" and the three quite successful Bulgarian features "The Black Swallow", "Fly by Rossinant" and "A Farewell to Hemingway". The figure and activities of Alexander Metodiev have huge impact on Bulgarian film industry which though humble and in long transitional period has the chance to cooperate with great world names like Ermano Olmi, Michael Kakoyanis and Djanik Fayziev. Mini Biography by: Georgi Djulgerov