Amateur Cinema in Bulgaria

Editors’ introduction: The following essay is a unique contribution in this book. Unlike all the other pieces, which are written by scholars who were not witnesses of the events they discuss, this essay relates a first-person account written by a participant of the Bulgarian amateur film scene. Vladimir Iliev first became an active member of that scene in the city of Rousse in 1964 and was the president of the Bulgarian National Federation of Alternative Cinema from 1993 until his death in 2020. He published a book in Bulgarian on this topic: Alternative Cinema in Rousse—Chronicles, Documents, Photos 1924