Zincograph
Directed by: Emil Christov
Written by: Vladislav Todorov
Genre: Dark Comedy-Thriller
Tagline: A maniacal informant creates a phantom secret-police department.
Synopsis:
Batko becomes a secret-police informant. He performs his duties with great zeal, and yet he is unduly dismissed. His ego is badly hurt. His experience with clandestine work makes him realize a simple fact - the system of the political police is flawed by nature. Secrecy is both, its power and weakness. The system depends on the presumed authenticity of the agents and recruitment of informants based on fear. The operations of the secret police could be imitated by rogue individuals posing as agents.
Batko creates a phantom secret-police department – a backdoor in the matrix of political control. He becomes the spider in his own web of informants by recruiting a group of intellectuals to spy on each other. He builds his own secret archive. After the fall of communism, Batko uses it to wreak havoc on the government.
"Zincograph" is a dark political comedy. The provocations that spur the plot forward in a slew of hilarious, yet diabolical absurdities come from the workings of the mind of a psychopathic schemer.
The movie offers a paradoxical twist in the standard representation of totalitarianism as a society of victims and victimizers. It exposes the maniacal desire to collaborate and the pleasure of spying on others, the temptation to conform and at the same time hack the system using its own devices.
Official Selection WORKS IN PROGRESS THESSALONIKI IFF '11
http://www.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&page=607&newsid=1533
Official Selection Cannes Atelier '10
http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/cinefoundation/ficheFilmAtelier/id/11019596/year/2010.html
http://www.ioncinema.com/news/id/4976
http://cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=141171
http://frognews.bg/news_21582/Balgarski_kinoproekt_-_izbran_v_programa_na_Kan/
http://www.nfc.bg/bg/news-go/kan_2010
http://bnt.bg/bg/news/view/25718/intervu_s_pisatelja_vladislav_todorov_za_novija_proekt_ay_cinkograf_au
Bulgarian national financial aid granted, 2009
http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/bulgaria/bulgarian-grants-announced
Official Selection New Cinema Network - Focus Europe, Rome IFF '09
http://www.romacinemafest.it/ecm/web/fcr/en/home/fondazione-cinema-per-roma/news/-/EOC/NEW-CINEMA-NETWORK-Selection-of-15-Projects-for-the-2009-Edition-Announced.0000.NEWSEN114
http://www.screendaily.com/5006517.article
Official Selection Connecting Cottbus, Cottbus IFF '09
http://www.connecting-cottbus.de/level9_cms/index.php?mid=00360094&LC=EN http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/region/connecting-cottbus-pitches-a-winning-event
Won Restart Award CineLink Coproduction Market, Sarajevo IFF '09
http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/region/sarajevo-cinelink-announces-industry-awards
http://bnt.bg/bg/news/view/13444/dve_nagradi_za_bylgarskoto_kino_na_festivala_v_saraevo
http://a-onefilms.com/blog/176#more-176
Won Balkan Fund Script Development Award, Thessaloniki IFF '08
http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=4&&page=727&newsid=1016
http://www.dnevnik.bg/show/?storyid=585962
http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/bulgaria/two-bulgarian-film-projects-awarded-in-thessaloniki
Interviews
http://bnt.bg/bg/productions/121/edition/11324/denjat_zapochva_s_kultura_22_dekemvri_2010
http://bnt.bg/bg/news/view/27838/ay_cinkograf_novijat_roman_na_vladislav_todorov
http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=452436
http://friday.vedomosti.ru/arts.shtml?2010/03/25/229135
http://www.24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=327420
Shooting
http://bnt.bg/bg/productions/121/edition/16043/denjat_zapochva_s_kultura_8_avgust_2011
http://bnt.bg/bg/news/view/58224/pyrvi_snimachen_den_na_cinkograf
http://bnt.bg/bg/productions/121/edition/16256/denjat_zapochva_s_kultura_24_avgust_2011
http://bnt.bg/bg/productions/121/edition/16073/denjat_zapochva_s_kultura_10_avgust_2011
http://www.dnevnik.bg/razvlechenie/2011/08/09/1136201_fotogaleriia_purvi_snimachen_den_na_bulgarskiia_film/?ref=rss
http://www.monitor.bg/article?id=302455
http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=995330
http://novinar.bg/news/agent-rushi-plete-intrigi-v-tajno-podzemie_MzY1Mzs1NQ==.html
http://paper.standartnews.com/bg/article.php?d=2011-08-10&article=377586
http://www.24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=996107
http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/bulgaria/production-zincograph-shooting-in-sofia

Samples
http://liternet.bg/publish2/gborisov/vladislav-todorov.htm
http://liternet.bg/publish19/vl_todorov/cinkograf.htm