Adela Media Film and TV Production Company

Adela Peeva Director and Producer

Adela Peeva

  • Member of the European Film Academy
  • Member of the Board of European Documentary Network (till the end of 2004)
  • Member of the Jury of the European Film Academy for best documentary
    “Prix Arte” - 2006
  • President of the Jury for documentary films - Sarajevo Film Festival - 2007
  • Member of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes, Berlin, Locarno Film Festivals
  • Expert at the European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) Workshops in Oulu, Finland - 2004 and at the forum “West meets East” in Utrecht - 2004
  • Guest-panelist at the World Congress of History Producers, Toronto - 2004
  • Guest-panelist at the INPUT 2005 Conference, San Francisco - 2005
  • National Coordinator of INPUT for Bulgaria
  • Tutor at the “Training course for filmmakers“ in Dublin, Ireland - 2007
  • President of the Jury for documentary films - Sarajevo IFF - 2007
  • Representative of the “EDN Talent Award” - Sarajevo IFF - 2007
  • President of the Jury for documentary films - Sofia International Film Festival - 2009
  • Tutor at the workshop “How to produce documentary” - Gorizia, Italy - 2009
  • Guest-lecturer at Oklahoma and Loyola-New Orleans Universities - 2009
  • Guest-lecturer at South-West University, Blagoevgrad – (till the end of 2010)
  • Member of the Jury – Mumbai International Film Festival - 2012
  • President of the Jury at the National film festival “Golden Rithon” - 2022
  • President of the Jury at the International film festival “Golden Linden” - Stara Zagora - 2023
  • Member of the Ecumenical Jury at the international TV - competition “Prix Italia 2023”

Some of the films of Adela Peeva she made in the period before 1999 were banned by the communist authorities:

  • Mothers - “Silver Rhyton” at the National Non-fiction Film Festival
  • In the Name of Sport - Prize of the Critics at the National Non-fiction Film Festival

Education

Academy for Film, Theatre and TV in Belgrade
Profile: Film and TV directing.

Courses and Seminars

  • Master class in Documentary film production - Eurodoc - 1998
  • “Religion and Human Rights in the Media”- Columbia University - 1999
  • Discovery campus master school - 2004

Till 1990

Has been working as a director for the TV stations in Ex-Yugoslavia and as a Director in the Studio for Documentary Films and the Studio for Feature Films in Sofia.

1993 - 1994 – Commission editor of the program “Through Christian World” at the Bulgarian National Television

Since 1991

Established her own company „ADELA MEDIA”. Made over 30 documentaries in co-operation with international partners from Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Belgium and Turkey including ZDF/ARTE, RBB/ARTE, RTBF, WDR, Periskope Productions N.V., YLE/TV1, TV-Facta, Synevizion Film - Turkey as well as Eurimages, Media Plus Programme, KulturKonatakt Austria Foundation, Jan Vrijman Fund and SOROS Documentary Fund

Her films have made the most prestige festivals and have been awarded high national and international awards

Two of the films of Adela Peeva - ”Whose is this Song?“ and ”Divorce Albanian style“ are till now the only Bulgarian and Balkan documentary films nominated by the European Film Academy for Best European Documentary - Prix ARTE in 2003 and 2007 respectively.