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Tchavdar Georgiev is an Emmy-winning filmmaker and a member of American Cinema Editors. He wrote, produced and directed the two times Emmy nominated PBS Independent Lens "The Desert of Forbidden Art." Described by LA Times critic Kenneth Turan as a "stranger than fiction several times over, remarkable documentary," it won the Cine Golden Eagle Award and was broadcasted around the world. He edited the two times Emmy nominated HBO documentary "Valentine Road" as well as the Cinema Eye Honors Awarded "Finders Keepers", both of which premiered at Sundance. He edited the four times Emmy-nominated PBS Independent Lens "Belly of The Beast," for which he also won an Emmy and the Netflix Original hit "The American Meme" that premiered at Tribeca and Hot Docs. He wrote, co-produced and edited "Off The Rails" that premiered at Hot Docs and won numerous awards including Doc NYC. He wrote and produced "Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man" that won the Hot Docs for Schools Audience Award. He wrote and edited "Served Like A Girl" that premiered at SXSW, "Larry Flynt for President" that premiered at Tribeca and Hot Docs, as well as "Skidrow Marathon" that won both LA Muse Best Doc and Audience Awards at the LA Film Fest and many others. He directed and edited for Nat Geo "Finding the Next Earth" and edited the Primetime Emmy nominated "Alien Earths." He wrote on the award-winning ARTE documentary "Beyond the Bolex"and edited on the Netflix Original Series "Song Exploder." He wrote and directed the award-winning "Tokyo Giant: The Legend of Victor Starffin." He was one of the editors on the Grand Jury Prize Sundance Winner "We Live in Public," "One Lucky Elephant," Best Doc Editing Award at Woodstock FF, "Bite Size," Best Doc at Cinequest, as well as the narrative feature "Bastards," MTV Russia Best Film Award. He produced the feature thriller "Nevsky Prospect" for Amazon Studios and the award-winning documentary "Campesino." He has field produced for USA Network, History Channel, PBS, BBC, Simon Wiesenthal Center, SF1 (Switzerland), MTV and commercials for Adobe, Cisco, NASA and TELE2 Mobile Europe. He also edited commercials for Honda, TELE2 and MTV as well as promo spots for Google and Stanford University. He was a researcher on the Sony Pictures Classics' award-winning documentary "Red Army" that premiered at Cannes and Participant Media's "Countdown to Zero" that premiered at Sundance. He served as a consultant or additional editor on ABC "David Blaine: Beyond Magic," the Netflix Original "The Rachel Divide" and the Oscar shortlisted "Women of the Gulag." Tchavdar holds an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts and Open Society Institute grants among many others. He has been a speaker and lecturer for the International Documentary Association, American Cinema Editors and other venues.