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Mimi Chakarova
Mimi Chakarova (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: Мими Чакърова) is a Bulgarian-American photographer and filmmaker. Chakarova grew up in Communist-era Bulgaria. Her best known work is likely ''The Price of Sex'', a 2011 documentary about sex trafficking. Her other film work includes ''George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, The Hour'' (2005) and ''Frontline/World (2002).'' Most recent is ''Men: A Love Story'' (2016). She is the recipient of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship for outstanding work in documentary photography. Chakarova's work has been recognized by being awarded the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, the Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award (for her work on sex trafficking), and a People's Voice Webby as well as a nomination for a News & Documentary Emmy Award. She taught photography at University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and at Stanford ...
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Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian (; , ) is an Eastern South Slavic, Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians. Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund and South Slavic languages, South Slavic dialect continuum of the Indo-European language family. The two languages have several characteristics that set them apart from all other Slavic languages, including the elimination of grammatical case, case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article, and the lack of a verb infinitive. They retain and have further developed the Proto-Slavic language, Proto-Slavic verb system (albeit analytically). One such major development is the innovation of evidentiality, evidential verb forms to encode for the source of information: witnessed, inferred, or reported. It is the official Languages of Bulgaria, language of Bulgar ...
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Filmmakers From The San Francisco Bay Area
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Journalists From The San Francisco Bay Area
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The Price Of Sex
''The Price of Sex'' is a 2011 full-length documentary film directed and produced by Mimi Chakarova. The film was released in multiple countries including Turkey, United States, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria. Synopsis The documentary is set in the post-Communist Eastern Europe. It is first hand information gathered about the Eastern European women who are sold or forcefully sent to neighbouring countries and areas for sex trafficking. The story is told by the survivors or victims. They have narrated their misery, harassment, distressful experiences and intimidation without any reservations for appearing in the film. Cast * Mimi Chakarova (voice). Production The film was directed, written and produced by Mimi Chakarova, photojournalist by profession. To shoot the film Chakarova traveled to rural areas to personally meet the victims. She also had to pose as a prostitute to gather material and build confidence of the sex workers, who had escaped from their ordeal, to narrate ...
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