In 2016, I was hired by producer
Vanya Rainova to co-write the feature length screenplay for JANUARY, alongside
the film's director, Andrey Paounov. Inspired by Yordan Radichkov's play of the
same name, JANUARY is a surreal tale of five men stuck in a snowstorm at the
edge of the world, who try to solve a mystery as it slowly devours them. Andrey
and I have described our take on the material as 'WAITING FOR GODOT meets THE SHINING'.
Perhaps that will give you an idea of what to expect, perhaps not…
Either way, I'm pleased to say
that JANUARY has now finished filming. I wasn't on set, but the shoot seems to
have gone well. Some beautiful behind the scenes stills can be found below.
Radichkov has been described
as 'Bulgaria's most distinctly-voiced, locally rooted, yet universal author of
the past century', and in 2001 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in
Literature. I had a huge amount of fun adapting the play, and I'm extremely
excited to see how the final film turns out.
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photos by Svetoslav Stoyanov. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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| Photo by Boryana Pandova. © Portokal |
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