Andrej Ilievski Volkashin

ANDREY VOLKASH­IN is a mace­do­ni­an author, screen­writer and dir­ect­or. He is an alum­nus of Seri­al Eyes, Torino Film Lab, Ber­linale, and Sara­jevo Tal­ents. His latest short film SNAKE (2019), has screened at major fest­ivals world­wide and won four­teen awards. He is cur­rently in post-pro­duc­tion of his debut fea­ture film, THE SWEET BIT­TER­NESS OF RIPE POMEGRANATES, pro­duced by Veda Film Pro­duc­tions. A Macedonian/​Croatian/​Bulgarian co-pro­duc­tion backed by Euroim­ages, the pro­ject was developed at TFL’s Script Lab 2019 and awar­ded the APostLab 2022 post-pro­duc­tion award. Andrey co-cre­ated (with Peter Vulchev) a com­edy music­al series THE ADVEN­TURES OF A TURBO FOLK PRIN­CESS with OXO pro­duc­tion com­pany – which already won two major devel­op­ment awards – the Croa­tian Audi­ovisu­al Cen­ter Drama Award at the Cinelink Industry Days of Sara­jevo Film Fest­iv­al 2023 and the Coun­cil of Europe Series Co-Pro­duc­tion Devel­op­ment Award at the Con­necta Fic­tion and Enter­tain­ment 2024.