Little Bird

Director's BIO

Elena Nikolova was born in 1990, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

At the age of 14 years, with drawing still not being an option for career, she entered a comprehensive high school in Plovdiv with science studies instead. Elena graduated from “St. Kliment Ohridski” high school in 2009, and moved to Sofia to study “Animation cinema” at New Bulgarian University. Her debut short animation movie “Little Bird” was finished in 2016 and with it, she graduated with Bachelor degree in Animation.

Elena has also experienced all kinds of various job placements such as bartender in 2010 (Sofia), henna tattoo artist in 2012 (USA), professional piercing artist in 2013 (Sofia), before starting on an intern for GROZEN ent. and right after completing the projects she got a full-time job as 2D animator for Tabtale (Game Company, Israel) in 2014. She is currently still working there as the Lead animator for the Bulgarian branch.

In 2015 was released the trailer of the first Bulgarian project for action and fantasy animation TV series, The Golden Apple (Studio Zmei, Sofia) based on Balkan mythology and culture. In her free time, Elena is working as part of the team behind it, specializing in effects animation.

Contacts

phone: +359883364394
elena_nikolova19@yahoo.com