The Thief

A fearful teenager spots a suspicious man on the subway in the middle of the night. What follows is a cat-and-mouse chase which takes an ironic turn.

  • Slav Velkov
    Director
    Easy, M (2017)
  • Slav Velkov
    Writer
  • Slav Velkov
    Producer
  • Gus Kellerman
    Key Cast
  • Wael Saleeb El Americany
    Key Cast
  • Matt Gioia
    Cinematographer
  • Guillermo Esparza
    Sound Design
  • Krasen Damov
    Sound Design
  • Kylie Ramírez
    Production Design
  • Slav Velkov
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Thriller, Satire
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    2,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Fordham University
Director Biography - Slav Velkov

Slav Velkov is a Bulgarian filmmaker whose work has reached 1M+ people and has been screened at renowned international film festivals. In 2021, his short A New World premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival in New York and was a semi-finalist at the Academy-Award qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival. His short documentary Change Bulgaria had 1M+ views and 4,549 shares on Facebook and inspired young people to stand up against governmental corruption. Most recently, Slav interned for The Wall Street Journal's video team, where he learned how to write, shoot, and edit under tight deadlines.

Slav has appeared on Bulgarian National Television, Bulgaria on Air TV, and other prominent media as part of his films' marketing campaigns. Slav holds a BA degree in Film & TV and Visual Arts from Fordham University, where he graduated summa cum laude and received the James Storey Award for artistic excellence and the William F. DiPietra Film Award.

Slav's quest in art is finding an honest and universal beauty, starting with the individual but ultimately hinting at a transcendent formal truth. He references the past millennia's three major artistic and ideological movements: monotheism, humanism, and paganism. Similarly to Early Renaissance art, he depicts humans in a dimensional and idiosyncratic way. However, he places his subjects in larger and often abstract formal structures to reconcile humanist anthropocentrism with Medieval asceticism.

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