PROJECTS
We do a variety of projects, from investigative TV reports, documentary work for clients to animated docs to social ads.
Here are some highlights of our work in the recent years
WE SEE UKRAINE
After a successful run the City Art Gallery - Plovidv, Forum Gallery – Zagreb, and Galrija Prica - Samobor, the WE SEE UKRAINE exhibition is coming to Sofia.
CONSUMER BASKET FOR THE SOUL
Exhibition by documentary artist Anna Stoeva at DERIDA Dance Center on the goods we lay out on the supermarket checkout lane and the stories they tell.
INVALUABLE OBJECTS
The exhibition, part of a project of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee and the Alliance for Protection Against Gender-Based Violence, presents a series of intimate photographs of personal belongings of women, murdered by their partners.
LOVE
An intimate short documentary portrait of a family, with warm and humorous animation elements, exploring the magical nuts and bolts making a marriage last for decades. With the support of the National Culture Fund.
ANIMATED
Animated documentaries and web
INVESTIGATIVE WORK
Documentary research and investigative journalism
BORDERS
Pulse Films, Channel 4 | UK
David stepped in as assistant producer and researcher on this investigative documentary directed by Tom Costello.
BORDER PATROL
KRO-NCRV | Netherlands
Brandpunt Segment on Bulgarian vigilante paramilitary groups patrolling the Bulgaria-Turkey border.
FATAL TRANSPORT
KRO-NCRV | Netherlands
Brandpunt Reporter Segment on the Bulgarian smuggling network accused of trafficking the 71 refugees found suffocated in a refrigerator truck by the side of an Austrian highway. Research and investigative work.
FOREIGN ADOPTIONS – THE BULGARIAN CASE
KRO-NCRV | Netherlands
Investigative segment on Bulgaria as the biggest European export country of children for adoption. The journey of healthy Bulgarian children from their biological families to foreign adoptions and its underlying economics.
BULGARIAN ARMS TRADE
Buzzfeed News | USA
Research, fixer and investigative work for Buzzfeed News piece on arms trade in the Middle East and the involvement of Bulgarian state of the art - or not so state of the art - arms dealers in it.
THE YOUNG TEACHERS
Deutsche Welle TV | Germany
In the failing Bulgarian school system only 3% of teachers are under 30 and most of them are forced to keep a second job to support themselves: the economic consequences of EU’s poorest state neglecting education are dire.
PRINCE OF ORPHANS
Deutsche Welle TV | Germany
Segment on a Bulgarian priest’s shelter for the disadvantaged. Using record public donations after high-profile, televised clashes with state authorities looking to close down the orphanage, Father Ivan buys up scores of houses in a village in the economically devastated Bulgarian North-west, and begins a large scale socio-economic experiment. Providing shelter is one matter, but giving homeless people a path to ownership and a stake in building their own farm - something entirely different.
THE BANK AND
THE PRIME MINISTER
Deutsche Welle TV | Germany
In the face of catastrophic political delegitimization with less than 8% support and the impossibility of making any public appearance without thousands of protesters blocking his escape routes, Prime Minister Oresharski appeared determined to survive all calls for resignation. However, the unexpected collapse of a major Bulgarian bank was to overwhelm his obstinacy. With 2 billion Euros (5% of GDP) in bad loans wiping out the deposits of citizens and State Owned Companies alike, the bank crisis finally bought Mr. Oresharski a shameful place in history as the shortest lived Prime Minister who wouldn’t know when to quit.
ONE FENCE TO
STOP THEM ALL
Deutsche Welle TV | Germany
In the early days of the refugee crisis, Bulgaria found itself on the forefront of the problem with a sudden influx of more than 6 thousand refugees entering the country in the fall of 2013. With the Dublin convention requiring Bulgaria to register, care for and integrate new migrants within its own underdeveloped social economy, the government’s choice was to build a wall to keep them out instead.
PRODUCTION WORK
Production team work on fiction projects
FILM
Films we've produced, written or directed through the years
GETTING FAT IN A HEALTHY WAY
Produced by Anna Stoeva for Revo Films and Pink Sheep Think. In a dystopian world where Earth's gravity has been weakened, anyone weighing less than 120 kilos flies off into space. The skinny Constantine must live his whole life inside, until a girl moves in next door and changes everything.
ABOUT US
Anna Stoeva + David Djambazov
tanuki films is an award-winning boutique production team focused on documentary film, journalism and interactive storytelling. Since our founding in 2011 we have created and serviced a number of documentary campaigns, investigative journalism segments, commercial and film projects. We work with a team of visual srotytellers with a strong background and passion for film, which we transform to serve the social and brand stories we tell. Our latest passion is data journalism, and particularly stories that combine data visualization with documentary storytelling.
Anna started her career as development producer for AGITPROP, top Bulgarian creative documentary production company. High profile co-productions she worked on include The Last Black Sea Pirates (HotDocs 2013, FIPRESCI Award Krakow 2013), Dad Made Dirty Movies (premiere at Visions du Reel 2011) and Paradise Hotel (HBO Bulgaria). In the summer of 2011, after a distribution internship at Magnolia Pictures, Anna co-founded tanuki films. Since then she has been the recipient of the Nipkow Emerging Producers Grant, and worked on projects in Moscow, Berlin and Sofia. Getting Fat In A Healthy Way which she produced in 2015 has been selected at over 70 festivals worldwide and won 15 international awards to date. In 2017-2019 she was co-creator and head writer of the SKY Germany mystery horror show Hausen.
David comes from a background as diverse as a degree in Physics from Caltech, a long stint as a trader on Wall Street, and production work in experimental theater in New York. Graduate of a directing program of the FAMU Film Academy, his debut short documentary Easter Dance of the Dead was nominated for Best Debut by the Bulgarian Film Academy. His credits in fiction include line producer’s assistant on the the independent feature Girl Most Likely, starring Annette Bening and Matt Dillon, theatrically distributed by Lionsgate, and line producer on the pilot episode of the TV series Ozabochennye, filmed for the Russian channel TNT in Moscow. David's passion for data has currently led him to the Master in Data Science program of UC Berkeley.
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