Biohazard: My First Short Film Script is an Actual Movie
- Andrey Filipov
- Nov 1
- 2 min read
Watch Biohazard here.
Yo, I have my very own short movie.
Tbf, I can hardly have ‘my own movie’. Movies are quite the team effort, and it will be a bit arrogant to say that it’s entirely mine (only the script is my own). But tbf, I(we) have a movie.
My post is about Biohazard, which tells the story of two scientists, one of which ends up locked up in a lab after spilling a little bit of virus on himself. Biohazard was written early 2019, so it’s a bit clairvoyant, especially if you relish far-fetched conspiracy theories and/or you don’t particularly like China/Bill Gates/you-name-it. The movie was shot late 2019.
Up to now, the movie gathered likes across festivals but this week it’s released in the Tube.
Initially, while it was being filmed, I chain-smoked cigarettes on set because I felt like it was going to be a total trainwreck. In the beginning, I tried meddling with the process but then, I took a possibly servile approach and decided just to smoke cigarettes and monitor if words were being pronounced correctly, and let the crew do their magic.
And yeah, the film is not what I envisioned. Only because of the casting; originally, the male part should have been way more expressive.
But after watching the movie after a year and half I realized: “Damn, this is good.” True, it’s not the pretentious drama, which I pictured in the head, but was a comedy where the pretentiousness was undercut by the absurd. Which is, of course, a microcosm of the human Being and our Bulgarian/cosmopolitan zeitgeist, yes. Or at least that's what I choose to believe.
Needless to say, my musings are nothing more than a point-of-view. Objectively, a whole crew, led by Christian Ivanov and Martin Assenov, and the NuBoyana apparatus (FilmForge, led by Ivaylo Grancharov) made the following very cool: directing, sound, music, picture, lighting, atmosphere, and, ultimately, film. My personal contribution to the movie, the script, wouldn’t have been possible without the expertise and advice of Simeon Ventsislavov and my colleagues from the Screenwriting course at NuBoyana. And all the friends, who I spammed 24/7, asking them to read my scribblings.
Of course, I am thankful for Liza Mircheva’s incredible acting and Dimitar Kassabov’s IRREPLACEABLE performance, which will probably not land him an acting job.
After a year and half, Biohazard made me smile.
And it’s spring now, soon even the age of viruses will end. I hope this movie makes you smile/laugh, as things get better. And subscribe and share pls
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