Theodore Ushev

Theodore Ushev is an animator from Kyustendil, Bulgaria, who built a reputation as a poster artist before moving to Montreal in 1999. After directing web shorts, he made his first National Film Board of Canada film, Vertical, in 2003, followed by Tower Bawher, Tzaritza and Drux Flux. He has made more than ten NFB films, including Lipsett Diaries (2010) and the Oscar-nominated Blind Vaysha (2016), and his work has collected more than 150 awards and mentions. His most ambitious project, The Physics of Sorrow (2019), adapts the novel by Georgi Gospodinov.