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Oscars: ‘Borat 2’ Star Maria Bakalova To Chair Bulgaria’s Best International Film Selection Committee

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Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova will chair the committee selecting Bulgaria’s best international film submission for the 2022-23 Oscar race, the country’s National Film Center has confirmed.Bakalova was Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated in the 2020-21 awards season for her performance as Borat’s daughter along Sacha Baron Cohen.

She is now busy forging a career in Hollywood where subsequent credits have included The Bubble, Bodies Bodies Bodies and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

3.She has remained loyal to her native Bulgaria where she cut her acting teeth in its independent arthouse cinema scene.Bakalova’s arrival on the Bulgarian Oscar selection committee follows controversy last year, after the selection of Ivaylo Hristov’s drama Fear over Cannes Un Certain Regard selection Women Do Cry, by Vesela Kazakova and Mina Mileva’s and starring Bakalova, prompted accusations of foul play.Bakalova will be joined by director Kristina Grozeva, whose film The Father (co-directed with Petar Valchanov) was Bulgaria’s 2020 entry, and producer Katya Trichkova, whose credits include award-winning films Dogs by Bogdan Mirica and The Judgement by Stephan Komanderev.Further members include film critic and festival organizer Katerina Lambrinova, festival organizer Hristo Hristozov and animation director Svilen Dimitrov.Previously announced member cinematographer Ivan Chertov, whose recent credits include February, may be swapped out following a conflict-of-interest issue with one of the films potentially in the running.There are currently eight films up for consideration: Georgi Kostov’s financial markets-set drama SpeculatorS; Martin Makariev’s award-winning 1970s labour camp drama In The Heart Of The Machine, Zornitsa Sophia’s

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