It’s your time to walk the red carpet.

Founded in 2019, the Pravets Film Festival is the place to realize your own creativity. Young Bulgarian filmmakers, join us on June 1st, 2024 and share your films with the world.

Our mission is to give students across Bulgaria a supportive environment to exercise creativity through film, while providing feedback from real industry professionals. We challenge Bulgarian High School students to create a three to four minute film, with a twist—the film must incorporate at least three special elements from a list of twenty. Read our film guidelines here.

Join Us

Chitalishte, Pravets, Bulgaria*

June 1st, 2024

Full event schedule coming soon!

For questions, contact us at pravetsfilmfestival@gmail.com

*Pravets Film Festival is prepared to host a digital festival if Bulgaria’s public safety restrictions require us to do so.

 
 

Festival attendees enjoyed the most incredible year of films we have had yet in 2023! Winners were awarded trophies by community members and representatives from Fulbright Bulgaria. See pictures of the festivities below!

 

The 6th Annual Film Festival: the show must go on!

The 2019 festival? A night to remember.

 

In 2019, the Chitalishte provided a regal setting for the first ever Pravets Film Festival. Bulgarian high school students from all across the country posed for photos on the red carpet, watched their films on the big screen and spoke about their films in front of a large audience. Winners were awarded a trophy by the Pravets Film Festival board of international judges. The Pravets Film Festival was founded by Shauna Ricketts, the English Teaching Assistant at Aleko Konstantinov Foreign Language High School. Check out photos from 2019’s extraordinary festival below!

Both festivals utilized the expertise of about 15 objective judges from all over the world, including Bulgaria, the United States, France, Canada and Germany. The students received individualized feedback from the judges who were responsible for ranking their films. You can view previous festival films here. We are so excited to see what the 6th Annual Pravets Film Festival holds!