“False Witness” – participant of 5th ed. – end of shooting

“False Witness” written and directed by Iglika Triffonova from Bulgaria took part in the 5th ScrtipTeast edition and was awarded with Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Eastern and Central European Script during 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

The project was supported by ScripTeast Creative Advisors: Peter Medak (director of Golden Palm nominated “The Ruling Class” and “The Changeling”, “The Krays”), Donato Rotunno (Luxembourgian producer and director responsible for “In a Dark Place”) and ScripTeast Head of Studies Tom Abrams (screenwriter and film director, author of the screenplay for the Oscar-nominated film, ”Shoeshine”, associate professor of script and production department at School of Cinematic Arts, UCS).

The crew was shooting in Bosnia and Holland for 3 weeks in Autumn 2013, then in Sweden for 3 weeks in Spring 2014. Cast includes: Krassimir Dokov (Bulgarian actor, main character in “Razsledvane” directed by Iglika Triffonova), Samuel Fröler (Swedish actor known from Billy August’s “Den goda viljan” based on script by Ingmar Bergman), Romana Bohringer (French actress, who played in Agnieszka Holland’s “Total Eclipse”) and Labina Mitevska (actress from Macedonia; played in Oscar-nominated “Before the Rain” directed by Milcho Manchevski). The director and script author, Iglika Triffonova, done earlier, among others, “Letter to America” and “The Investigation” based on true story and awarded during festivals in Sofia, Cottbus and Warsaw.

Producer of “False Witness” – Rossitsa Valkanova (KLAS Film) who has been working with Iglika Triffonova on her previous films informed us that release date of “False Witness” is planned for 2015. The project is a Bulgarian-Swedish-Dutch-German-Macedonian coproduction and is supported by The Bulgarian National Film Center, Bulgarian National Television, The Swedish Film Institute, Film i Skäne, SVT and The Dutch Film Fund.