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Hristo Hristov is the author and executive producer of the movies of Alpine club Edelweiss. He is born in 1969. Practices alpinism, speleology, rafting and mountain biking, free style skiing… Behind the camera gets for the first time in 1996. The debut is “Terra Incognita”. The subject of the movie is the longest cave in Bulgaria, located in Vitosha. Movie is made in cooperation with BNT. An injury of the chief camera man in one of the underground galleries during the pictures, gives Hristo a chance to finish the video production as a camera man. This unexpected task, which requires filming in hard terrain is the beginning of about 60 documentaries on mountains and adventures, realized by club Edelweiss between 1998 and 2008. In accordance to their format, year of production and their producers, the movies were broadcasted many times on: BNT, NovaTV, bTV, TV-Seven days, RING TV, SKAT, DEMO and Bulgarian Satellite Channel. Two of the documentary movies are awarded with international awards for mountain cinema. During the summer of 2003, out team, in cooperation with colleagues from First Channel of the Russian national TV, realize the series “Traveller’s Club”. Separate episodes of some of our movies are being used in a movie for the Bulgarian traditions of the German TV – ARD. Since 2002, in cooperation with RING TV we are realizing the film series Vertical Frontier.

The movies, the subjects and the broadcasting medias, in correspondence of the production year are the following:

Name of the movie

Subject and year

EXTREME SPORT

1996  -  A movie about Vitosha and the opportunities that the mountain offers for practicing alpinism and canyoning.

THE SMALL BIG MOUNTAIN

1997 - movie about the winter face of Vitosha Mountain.

TERRA INCOGNITA

1997—2001 environmental film series

ORBELUS – THE SNOW MOUNTAIN

2000 – Movie about Pirin Mountain and alpine climbing to Dzangalskata Igla (Dzangalska Needle)

EXTREME

2001 – rubric for extreme sports in a sport programme on Sattelite Channel Bulgaria.

ALPIAN CONNECTION II

2001 – one of the best movies, dedicated on the mountain during the winter, the frozen waterfalls of Rila and the alpinists, made from the team of Club Edelweiss.

FOLLOWING THE WHITE CLOUDS

2001 – movie about Rila Mountain in the winter

WHIRLPOOLS MOUNTAIN

2002 – Movie about secrets and the beauty of Ponor Mountain

THE WHITE PEAK

2003 – movie about the Bulgarian climbing to Mont Blanc

VERTICAL FRONTIER

2002 - Movie series for mountains and adventures

A PLACE TO BE CRAZY

2003 -

FAIR SEX

2002 – 2003 movie with two parts about the strength of the fair sex during the extreme conditions in the mountain.   

MOUNTAIN GUIDES

2004 – movie about the profession of the mountain guide – made on the request of Tourists agency Odisseya In.

THERE IS NO TURNING BACK

2005 – movie about the adventurous team teambuilding programmes for team work establishing of Club Edelweiss.

TRAVELERS CLUB

2004 – movie on Bulgaria, made by a team from the Russian TV - Channel One - ORT'

FROM THE HEART OF THE ANDES

2006 – movie about the Bulgarian expedition to Cordillera Blanca – Peru, South America.