Kristina Grozeva graduated in Journalism from the University of Sofia in 2000 and in Film and TV Directing from NATFA in 2005. She’s received numerous award for her short films, among them Best Fiction Debut at the Bulgarian Film Academy Awards 2008 for Birds of Heaven; Special mention of the jury of the International Student Film Festival, Casablanca, Morocco 2009 and Special mention of the jury of the Mediaschool International Film Festival, Lodz 2009 for Gap; The award for the best short film until 10 min. – International Student Film Festival 2006 /PREMIOS 7° Festival de Escuelas de Cine/, Montevideo, Uruguay and The Best Film of International One-Minute Film Festival – FILMINUTE, UK, 2007 for Game. Petar Valchanov graduated in Film and TV Directing from the NATFA in 2008. His first short film Shock participated in the student program at Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2001; his next short film Resurrection was awarded for Best Film at the International Student Film Festival – Velingrad 2003. His short film Captured was selected at Tampere Film Festival, Finland 2005, as well as Sofia Film Fest – Jameson competition 2005, and Tel Aviv Film Festival, Israel 2006. His short film Family Therapy was awarded Best student fiction film of International Film Festival Wiesbaden 2009, Best film – CINEMAIUBIT – international student film festival Bucharest 2008, and JAMESON award for the best Bulgarian short film at Sofia Film Fest 2008, among others. Together, Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva have directed the documentary Parable of Life (2009), the TV feature Forced Landing (2010, awarded Best TV film at Golden Rose International Film Festival – Varna, Bulgaria 2010 and Grand Prix for best TV film - Berdyansk film festival, Ukraine 2011). Recently they wrote and directed the short film Jump which was awarded with a Nomination for the European Film Awards 2013 at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2013, making it the first Bulgarian short film ever nominated for EFA. Jump was also awarded with Grand Prix at Brussels Short Film Festival 2013, Excellence Award for Best Picture at Busan International Short Film Festival 2013, and Best Short Film by the Bulgarian Film Academy 2013 (shared with The Parraffin Prince) 2013, among others. Jump received a Special Mention by the Jury at Festival international du cinéma méditerranéen de Montpellier - France 2013 and was officially selected at over 20 international film festivals including Curtas Vila do Conde - Portugal 2013 and Sofia International Film Festival 2013.