We collect old cinema posters, booklets, cards, amateur viewing albums, diaries, old tickets and all kind of “artefacts” that are somehow connected with the distribution of films in Bulgaria.
Whenever we have the possibility, we will organize exhibitions and permanent expositions in the cinema museum of Cultural center G8.
If you would like to give us materials, photographs or items, please message us at: g8_alternativa@abv.bg
EXHIBITIONS
On the 30th September 2016, in collaboration with Cultural center G8, “The Nonconformist alternative” organized an Exhibition of original cinema posters of Sashka Rusinova and placards, booklets and cinema brochures from the 70’s and 80’s, found in abandoned cinemas.
In collaboration with Cultural center G8 we participated in the exhibition “THE CINEMA – THEN AND NOW”, which was inaugurated on the 15th April, 2016.
Our participation was associated with contemporary reconstructions by photographs of the first cinemas in Sofia from the beginning of the 20th century.
On the 12th June 2016, after a screening of a film program for children, we also organized a Workshop. Kids and parents together were creating their first animated heroes. Moderator and assistant for the children was Anita Toncheva – animator.
Contributors of the charitable cultural platform “The Nonconformist alternative” are:
Contributors of the platform are also Margarita Shumanova, Kostadin Bonev, Nevelina Popova and all friends that support us.
A contributor is everyone who supports or shares our idea.
Thanks to everyone!
ANTIGONE
Bulgaria, 2017, 14 min
Writer and director: Martin Dangov
Director of photography: Preslav Belev
Set designer: Nevena Georgieva
Editing: Stoyan Velinov, Ivaylo Penchev
Assistant director: Simona Georgieva
Sound: Martin Nazlamov
Lighting: Aleksandar Georgiev
Starring: Miroslava Gogovska, Ivan Terziev and others
Producer: Elena Mosholova
Co-producers: Concept Studio, Screening Emotions
Annotation:
When Stanka’s father dies, the poor seamstress doesn’t have enough money for the funeral. The institutions refuse to support her and she comes up with a thrilling solution to the situation.
Based on the story by Maria Stankova “Kato edna Antigona”
“New horizons” out of competition screening during the Golden rose film festival, 2017
Official selection in shorts competition – Trieste Film Festival, 2018
Founded in October 2014, Cultural center G8, also known as G8 Cinema, is a new urban establishment for quality independent art cinema and events that are intertwined with the wide spectrum of visual and scenic arts, literature and cultural heritage. The center comprises of three cinemas, hall for presentations and training courses, small museum of cinema, a café and a garden that becomes a cinema courtyard during the warmer months.
The center’s objective is to popularize film culture through the selection and screening of a variety of quality cinema production, organized in regular programs, festivals, panoramas, projects and courses that must meet the needs of the cineastes as well as to provoke a specific interest in the audience. The offering of a rich repertoire and festival program that is suitable for viewers of different age and with different interests is one of the goals of the Center, because the films have the potential to be an extra key instrument with a role in the education, the social and public life and cultural diversity. The variety of the film program is usually accompanied by additional events, such as discussions, concerts and exhibitions that are also an important factor in the attraction and establishment of a new and regular audience. G8 Cinema is already one of the traditional locations and hosts of the established yearly events in the field of cinema, as well as of other festivals and special film weeks that are still new and rising in popularity. Among them are the panoramas, organized in partnership with different cultural institutes and embassies, that consist of cost-free screenings for the Bulgarian audience and several accompanying events, such as exhibitions, discussions and meeting, culinary tastings and dancing demonstrations.
Cultural center G8 also implements a support for the development of young professionals in the field, providing a “scene” on which they can present their works as well as a place for training and cultivation of their abilities. One of the initiatives in that sense is the established partnership with the National professional high school for precise technique and optics “M. V. Lomonosov” that allows the students to do an internship in the cinemas of G8 and Eurocinema in the field of movie projection. Another project in the same field is the charitable platform “The Nonconformist alternative”, initiated and developed in partnership with professionals and authors, that has as an objective the popularization of short cinema in Bulgaria. The project includes monthly screening of thematic programs comprised of short movies that have been selected by curators that are students, specialists in the field of Humanities, cinematography, audiovisual arts and other, accompanied by discussions and ateliers and the possibilities for financial support for the production of Bulgarian short movies.
A successful initiative of the Center was the creation of an amateur museum of cinema. Because of the horrible fate of the majority of the old and emblematic cinemas not only in Sofia, but in the whole country, the goal was to be preserved, although partially, the memory of these cinema halls. Documents, photographs, technique and posters to tell this story and the young audience to know how the cinemas in Bulgaria looked like before the era of digitalization – this is the objective of the museum. In the past few years there have been various thematic exhibitions of original cinema posters that have been organized in partnership with the State Cultural Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the platform “The Nonconformist alternative” and other cultural institutes.
Since 2015 Cultural center G8 is a member of the network of cinemas Europa Cinemas, as the membership isn’t just support with a deciding role in the survival of the independent art-cinemas, but also a prestigious sign for their shape, program and activity.
CULTURAL CENTER G8
Sofia 1000, 8, “William Gladstone” street
Phone: +359 2 995 00 80; +359 879 611 099
g8cinema@gmail.com
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