Bulgarian National Film Center The Bulgarian National Film Center (BNFC or NFC; also spelt Centre) is an executive agency under the Minister of Culture that helps to fund filmmaking and related activities. It is supported partly by the government's budget and partly by revenues from its own activities. Its functions include the support and/or organisation of the following: • creation, distribution, and showing of Bulgarian films both nationally and internationally • film festivals of Bulgarian and foreign films at home (such as the
Sofia International Film Festival) and showing of Bulgarian films abroad • training and qualification of film industry workers • activity of
Creative Europe Media-Bulgaria • cooperation with similar organisations in other countries and various programs of the
Council of Europe (for which it is the coordinator for Bulgaria in the
European Audiovisual Observatory The body was referred to as
Bulgarian National Cinema Council in 2019, when it was presided over by producer
Vladimir Andreev, and selected
Ága as the Bulgarian entry. In 2024, the film
Triumph was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, by a unanimous decision of a five-member selection committee appointed by the BNFC.
Bulgarian National Film Archive The
Bulgarian National Film Archive is another legal entity under the Ministry of Culture. It was established to acquire, restore, preserve, and store film and film-related archival artefacts of Bulgarian and international culture. ==References==