Bio
Alexander Tomov Jr. was born on June 3, 1982 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. He has graduated from the German English School (2002). He studied social anthropology at the New Bulgarian University for two years. Now he studies filmmaking at the same university. He is much interested in psychology, philosophy and the arts. He is taking his first steps as a director and writer. He has made the documentary God Is Love, about the social problems in the poorest Sofia minority ghetto (2007). This documentary is on sale at www.amazon.com His second documentary Resurrected Moments is made in a surreal manner. It is after the memories of Ekaterina Tomova and is about the dramatic death of the great Bulgarian actress Leda Tasseva. Alexander Tomov Jr. has taken part in the feature film Brutally, made by the writer Alexander Tomov (2006). He has performed episodic roles in the movies by the director Docho Bodzhakov: My Little Nothing (a feature film, 2007) and a movie about Bulgarian history (a documentary). He is the co scriptwriter of the documentary commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Towards Europe, about the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union (2006). He writes his own column in the Curer newspaper. The Power of Subconscience is his first collection of poems, published in 2007. His poems are translated into Portugal and published in elite literary newspapers in Brazil. Some of his works are published, both in Bulgarian and in Western literary sites. He has taken part in the making of a few musical clips. He is now preparing his first collection of short stories with modern subject-matter. At the moment the collection includes 38 short stories, translated into English and not published yet. His works are an attempt at a nonstandard point of view of the world and human imagination. They are influenced by his favorite writers and poets ( Jorge Luis Borges, Isaac Babel, Edgar Poe, Dostoevski, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Leon Farg, Cesare Pavese, Sergei Essenin, Emily Dickinson, etc.), and by contemporary directors – Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, David Lynch, Brian de Palma, Nikita Mikhalkov, etc. His greatest ambition is to leave a mark in world literature and cinema and show the depth of a human being as he sees it.