COMPATIBILITY now in post production
In post-production December 2016
COMPATIBILITY by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev completed shooting. The Bulgarian/German/Macedonian coproduction’s financing took less than a year.
Based on real events, the script written by Simeon Ventsislavov and Stephan Komandarev interweaves six contemporary taxi drivers’ stories and a free interpretation of Anton Chekhov’s short story Grief.
Preproduction started in March 2016, with scout locations and a test shooting of the whole film with a small digital camera. The real shooting in nocturnal Sofia took place in NovemberDecember 2016 and lasted 24 days. There are roughly six oneframe episodes, some of which go uninterrupted for nearly twenty minutes.
Bulgarian National Film Center, Bulgarian National Television, the German Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), the Macedonian Film Agency and Eurimages are supporting.
Page published 16 December 2016.
