Decho Taralezhkov is a Bulgarian scriptwriter, mostly known for his collaboration with directors Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva. He co-wrote and acted in their award-winning second feature GLORY (2016), co-wrote and assistant-directed their third feature THE FATHER (2019), and is currently developing their next film TRIUMPH. His other work includes BLUE BIRDS ISLAND (2019), a limited series for kids for the Bulgarian National Television, and the story-driven indie video game ELEA (2018), where he also voices two of the roles. Decho has a degree in Dramaturgy from the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia. He is also the singer, guitarist and lyricist of Sofia-based art-rock outfit Stop the Schizo.
feature film
2nd draft of the script
The winter of 1990. The country is in disarray. Huge lines for bread, flour and gas fill up the city streets. Governments come and go. In the meantime, a group of high-ranking military officers, led by two psychic ladies, are digging a top-secret hole in search of an alien legacy that will make Bulgaria great again.
Attached to the project: co-writer, director, producer
Looking for: co-producer
Keywords: drama, comedy, satire, military operation, top-secret, inspired by real events
feature film
first draft
A childless aging couple uses all of their illegally earned savings to fulfill their long-time dream of seeing St. Petersburg and the White Nights. After they become the victims of tourist fraud, the tension between them escalates and past lies start coming to light.
Attached to the project: co-writer, director, producer
Looking for: co-producer
Keywords: dramedy
TV series
pilot script, show bible
Falsely hoping that traffic accident compensation cases are the road to making it big, devil may care lawyer and man of the masses Tony Bakalsky finds himself pitted against a corrupt network of insurers, big law firms and outright violent competitors as he struggles to pay mortgage and keep his oddball clients and his family from leaving him for good.
Attached to the project: co-creator, director, producer
Looking for: networks/platforms, co-producers
Keywords: Balkan dramedy, lawyer, social injustice, based in reality
feature film
first draft of the script
40 y.o. Daphne is in a bad place in life, when she learns she’s the sole heir of an ancient house in a forlorn Bulgarian village that belonged to her recently deceased 103 y.o. grandmother, whom she didn’t know existed. As she tracks her roots back to the heart of the majestic Rhodope mountain, Daphne has to decide whether to protect the heritage of a family she never knew or sell the land to a company that will tear the house down to tap the unique mineral water that runs below it.
Attached to the project: co-writer, director, producer
Looking for: co-producers, world sales
Keywords: drama, comedy, trauma, ethnographic, heritage, woman in crisis
feature fiction
developed script
A group of office co-workers with a strong sense of entitlement are taken on a team building retreat in a secluded mountain hut. Instead of learning ways how to tolerate each other, however, they provoke the wrath of a nationalistic local community and their sociopathic ringleader. What follows is the moral and/or physical demise of everyone involved.
Attached to the project: co-producer
Looking for: director, co-producer
Keywords: psychological thriller, violence, satire, cautionary tale
2019 THE FATHER, feature film directed by Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, co-writer/1st A.D. – Karlovy Vary IFF: Crystal Globe
2019 BLUE BIRDS ISLAND, 8-part limited series produced by Bulgarian National Television, directed by Kristina Grozeva & Peter Valchanov, co-writer
2018 ELEA, video game, developed by Kyodai Inc., writer/voice actor
2018 LIBERTAS, short film, co-writer
2016 GLORY, feature film directed by Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, co-writer/actor – Winner of more than 40 international awards, including best screenplay awards from Gijón IFF 2016, Golden Rose Bulgarian FF 2016, Audi Dublin IFF 2017, Valence scénario – Festival international des scénaristes 2017, Herceg Novi Montenegro FF 2017
2008 GROUND-SEA-SWELL, short film directed by Boris Nikolov, co-writer – Forum Honoris Causa 2009 (NATFA student film awards): Best Screenplay, Audience Award; In the Palace ISFF Balchik 2009 – Kodak Award for Best Bulgarian Short
“Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”
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The Big Lebowski (1998)