29. October - 3. November 2007.




International Television Festival

The 32nd Golden Chest International Television Festival will be held from 29 October to 3 November, 2007. Its main organiser is Bulgarian National Television with the kind cooperation of Plovdiv Municipality.
Dedicated to the achievements of modern television creative work, every year the Festival attracts artists from all over the world.
On behalf of the Festival Organisation Committee, we would like to invite you to participate in the competition program in the following categories:
- TV Films and Mini-Serials for Adults
- TV Films and Mini-Serials for Children and Adolescents
- TV Documentaries
- TV Reports
The Festival week offers numerous creative meetings, press-conferences, master classes, presentations of television organisation and international cinema and television festivals, showing of out-of-competition programs, panorama of the work of distinguished cinema artists, as well as meetings with popular Bulgarian and international film and television professionals, producers, actors and others.

Golden Chest International Television Festival is one of the longest-standing and most prestigious international festivals in Europe. It was founded in 1968 through the initiative of “Television Drama” Department of Bulgarian National Television.

The festival focuses on the genre of television drama, which has changed in form and contents through the years – from the specific character of television drama to television films and serials. In 1978, the main two categories in the competition program were established: “Television Drama for Adults” and “Television drama for Children and Adolescents”. In 2000, the competition enriched to include a new genre category – “Television Documentaries and Television Reports”.

For 38 years, Golden Chest International Television Festival is one of the few centers in South-East Europe, where international artists can meet and discuss their ideas and experience. The participation of numerous television organisations and independent producers from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Australia has made the festival a window to the world for many Eastern European television artists.

Over the years, the Golden Chest Grand Prix in the three categories have gone to Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Spain, Russia, the UK, the USA, and many other countries.

Since 1978, the Festival has been annually held in October in the city of Plovdiv. The ancient city of Plovdiv is a peculiar cultural capital of Bulgaria. Here is where the millennia-long histories and cultures of Thracians, Romans, Greeks, and other ancient civilizations meet. And today, during all seasons of the year, it is a center of different cultural feasts.

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Bulgarian National Television
International Relations Department
GOLDEN CHEST International TV Festival 2007
29 "San Stefano" str.
1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel: + 359 2 943 60 34
Fax: + 359 2 963 40 45
E-mail: ravena_boteva@bnt.bg – in English
b_angelakieva@bnt.bg – in Russian
goldenchest.bnt.bg

Venue:

Novotel "Plovdiv"
2 "Zlatiu Boyadjiev" St., P.O. Box 647
4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Tel: + 359 32 943 166; 943 481; 943 163
Fax: + 359 32 943 346; 943 160
Website: www.icep.bg