Love, Paper, Scissors ENG

FILM TITLE: Love, Paper, Scissors (Любов, ножица, хартия)

Genre: short film, drama
Running Time: 21min20sec
Year of production: 2019

SYNOPSIS

Laura is a shy girl who refuses to see other people and never leaves her home where she makes origami all day long. All of a sudden, she crashes on Elena - an adventurer and a traveler that never stays in one place for too long. Will the two have the courage to escape from their comfort zone and build a serious relationship?

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Yerba Mate Ltd.
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST
Boryana Bratoeva as Laura
Vesela Babinova as Elena

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Plamen Marinov
Screenwriter: Plamen Marinov, Hristo Kanov, Snezhina Piskova
Producer: Plamen Marinov, Snezhina Piskova
Director of Photography: Andrey Kaloudov
Sound: Ivan Manov
Editing: Plamen Marinov
Sound Editing: Ivan Manov
Music Composer: no music

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Drama
Sub-genre: psychological drama, LGBTQ, coming of age
Language: Bulgarian
Country of origin: Bulgaria, Netherlands
Year of production: 2019
Total running time: 21min20sec
Shooting format: Digital
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 2K Scope (2.39:1)
Sound format: Stereo

AWARDS



FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

12th FOR RAINBOW ,SEXUAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY FILM AND CULTURE FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil) NOVEMBER 8, 2019
SANTO DOMINGO OUTFEST - FESTIVAL INT'L DE CINE LGBT 2019 (Official Selection, Gazcue, Dominican Republic) NOVEMBER 28, 2019
11th INTERNATIONAL QUEER FILM FESTIVAL MERLINKA (Official Selection, Belgrade, Serbia) DECEMBER 5, 2019
11th KASHISH MUMBAI INT'L QUEER FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Mumbai, India) JULY 22, 2020
6th LESFLICKS CINEMA @ LFEST (Official Selection, London, United Kingdom) JULY 24, 2020
3rd ARIANO INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Ariano Irpino, Italy) JULY 30, 2020
11th KASHISH MUMBAI INT'L QUEER FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
38th GOLDEN ROSE FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Varna, Bulgaria), SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
18th FLORENCE QUEER FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Florence, Italy), OCTOBER 13, 2020
6th FUSION - SOUTH EUROPE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Valencia, Spain), OCTOBER 17, 2020
33rd IMAGE+NATION LGBTQueer Montreal (Official Selection, Montreal, Canada), NOVEMBER 19, 2020
6th SIERRA INT'L FILM WEEKEND (Official Selection, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia), DECEMBER 4, 2020
6th DIGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Goiás, Brazil) APRIL, 2021
4th CHAMBAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Mumbai, India) JANUARY 22, 2021


BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR

Plamen Marinov is a director and a film editor from Varna, Bulgaria. He has studied in New Bulgarian University and Ecole nationale supérieure d’audiovisuel, France. He was part of the organization of Producers Network events in Marché du Film during the Film Festival in Cannes 2018. So far he has participated in English, French and Bulgarian projects.