Personal Information

Name: Jana Miroslavova Stoyanova
Address: c. Ljulin, Bl. 910, Entr. C, apt. 45
1336 Sofia
Bulgaria
Telephone: +359 / 2 / 270 640
Mobile: +359 / 888 / 56 10 26
E-mail: jana@sofiafxstudios.com
lucky_jana@hotmail.com
Web: www.sofiafxstudios.com

Skills

  • artist (air-brush, painting, aging),
  • life-casting person (alginate casts),
  • foam latex casting,
  • gads maker (intestines, blood, body parts),
  • sculpting,
  • make-up artist: beauty / movie / theater
  • foam casting,
  • fiberglass casting,
  • uretain casting,
  • plaster casting,
  • modelling wounds & SFX make up,
  • foam latex prosthetics
  • stand by artist on set,
  • dressing up on set,
  • finishing up of castings (blending),
  • puppeteering,
  • Art teacher,
  • Body painting,
  • 2D animator (director of animation),
  • sewing,
  • shop-fronts designer,
  • good continuity knowledge

Experience

07.2005 Man of the people, Italian movie
add. crowd make up artist
06.2005 Noone lent, feature movie, dir. A. Slabakov
pre-period: commercial shooting; key make up artist
05.2005 - 06.2005 Lady with the camelias (La signora delle camelie), DAP Itlaly, Nimar Studios Ltd. Deangelis film production, dir. L. Gasparini
make up assistant, crowd make up artist
05.2005 Wax children, dir. Nichev
prosthetics for actor Dean Donkov (cut off ear prosthetic, sewed ear prosthetic)
05.2005 BBB juices, commercial
assistant make up atist to V. Valov
04.2005 UFO company
120 kg. movie blood (with Valentin Valov), fake knife (with Valentine Valov), fake medallion
04.2005 Junk Brothers company
silicone puppet cast
04.2005 Reifeisen bank, commercial
make up
02.2005 - 03.2005 The Erudite, Bulgarian TV movie
female creatures, make up artist
12.2004 Chinese wife (La mogle cinese) , Italian movie, Filmaster Film S.R.L, Nimar Studios Ltd.
makup assistant
11.2004 ProCredit Bank, commercial
Prop box
11.2004 Mr. DJ music video, singer: Svetla Ivanova
conceptual design and making, the robot character in the video, air brushing & apply on set
10.2004 - 11.2004 Mr Dobro, 2 sculptures for restaurant chain "Dobro"
design, sculpting (with Roko), casting (with Miglena and Roko), painting
09.2004 Antibody, Dir. Tery Winkles
blood FX, puppeteer, cut off head (comb. with CGI)
09.2004 Locust, Dir. Ian Gilmore, SFX supervision: Sofia FX Studios
500 locusts, 500 larvas, mechanical nest, dead cows, dressing on set
08.2004 - 09.2004 T.R.I.B.E.S, Dir. Ted Nicolaou, DoP David Worth, SFX supervision Jeff Farley
Starring Corey Feldman,
puppeteer, life casting, mold making, painting, working on set
06.2004 - 07.2004 Man with the screaming brain, Dir. Bruce Campbell, DoP David Worth, SFX supervision Mell Tucker
Starring: Bruce Campbell
SFX M/U, working on set, ear prosthetic - sculpting, finishing up costume
05.2004 - 06.2004 Alien Apocalypse, Dir. Josh Becker, DoP. David Worth, SFX supervision Gary Jones
Starring: Bruce Campbell
Air-brushing, puppeteering, working on set, SFX M/U, sculpting, prosthetics hands, chop off neck
05.2004 Move in independent practice
04.2004 - 05.2004 Rage Shark, Dir. Dany Lerner, DoP. Emil Topuzov
Finishing-up, painting shark, fibercasting
01.2004 - 03.2004 Hammer Head, dir. Michael Oblovitz, DoP. Emil Topuzov
Designing and sculpting shark embyos
10.2003 - 12.2003 Mansquito, Dir. Tibor Tacker, DoP. Emil Topuzov
07.2003 - 09.2003 Control, dir. Tim Hunter
Starring: Ray Liotta, William Defoe
07.2003 - 08.2003 Volcano, dir. Mark Roper
Dead animals (birds, fishes, rats), lava
04.2003 - 07.2003 Nine Lives, dir. David Carson
starring: Wesley Snipes
prosthetic broken leg, burn body, dummies, prosthetic old age make-up
04.2003 - 05.2004 Back to work in Creature Miniature Shop NuImage company, SFX supervisor Willie Botha
24 - 26.02.2003 Show Make-up, Theater Akzent
210 models / day
09.2002 - 03.2003 Moderation make up for Austrian TV
09.2002 - 03.2003

Working for a project "Fancy Heads" in Vienna
Sculpting caricature heads of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Schumacher, Kanzler Schroeder of Germany, Charles Chaplin, George Bush, Michael Jackson
(www.fancyheads.com)

12.2002 Body painting,
Casanova bar, Vienna, Austria
11.2002 Moderation make up
Pammerfilm, Vienna, Austria
10.2002 Mac Donald's advertising (Swetzeland)
SFX makeup, fake silicone thongue
09.2002 - 03.2003 Beauty Line Vienna
Make Up school / beauty make-up / theatre / SFX make-up
09.1999 - 09.2002 CREATURE MANIFACTURE MINIATURE SHOP in Nu Image Company, Sofia, Bulgaria
SFX supervisor Willie Botha
Main artist (air-brush, painting, aging), life-casting person (alginate casts), foam latex casting, gads maker (intestines, blood, body parts), foam casting, fiberglass casting, uretain casting, plaster casting, modeling wounds& SFX make up, stand by artist on set, dressing up on set, finishing up of castings, prosthetics, puppeteering
05.2002 - 09.2002 The shu, dir. Ringo Lam, starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Foam latex prosthetics, Jean-Claude Van Damme Fight make up, cut throat, tattoos, Jean-Claude Van Damme life castings, breaking dummy, fake fists (stunts fights)
04.2002 - 06.2002 Air strike dir. David Worth
SFX artiet, body parts after explosions (dummy tired of), SFX make up (knife in the forehead), burned half body
04.2002 - 05.2002 Marines, dir. Mark Roper
SFX artist, foam latex prosthetics (Tired knee, shot aye, bitten till dead solder, stomach wound, and body parts & blood), Dummies
03.2002 - 04.2002 Sinking interno, dir. David Douglas
SFX artist, body parts tired from mines, dummies
01.2002 - 03.2002

Alien hunter, dir Ronald Krauss,
starring: James Spader, Carl Lewis, Lesley Stefanson
SFX artist, prosthetic (fork in the throut) Life casting, set dressing, miniatures, work on set, assistant to MEL artist with the alien costume, melting dummies

11.2001 - 01.2002

Derailed, dir Bob Misiorowski,
starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme
SFX artist, aging, miniatures, dummies, fabrications

11.2001 - 12.2001 Megalodon, dir. David Worth
SFX artist, casting, finishing of the casting, water plants (designed, sculpted and painted)
08.2001 - 09.2001 Death train, dir. Yossi Wein
SFX artist
07.2001 - 08.2001 Frogmen, dir.Franklin Valette
SFX artist, dummies
04.2001 - 05.2001 Go for the money, dir. Gaga Antonievic,
starring: Val Kilmer, Christian Slater
SFX artist, casting (dummy doubles), fabrication, aging
03.2001 Rats, dir. Tibor Tacacs
SFX artist, foam latex casting (the rat and set dressing little rats), dummies, painting, hair punching, prosthetics (woman without legs and hand, tired neck), finishing of the castings, puppeteering
01.2001 - 02.2001 Disaster, dir. Yossi Wein
SFX artist
01.2001 Panic, dir. Bob Misiorowski
SFX artist, aging, making miniatures
10.2000 - 11.2000 The order, dir. Lettich,
starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme
SFX artist, manufactures, aging, prostetic feet and hands, live casting
08.2000 - 09.2000 Grey zone, dir.Tim Nelson, S
starring: Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Steve Buscemi
Main SFX artist, life casting (17 people, 3 kids & sculpted baby), finishing, painting dead bodies, dressing them, hair style (over 350 dummies-gelatin, gelatin with foam, balloon latex with foam), makeup on extras, stand-by on set
07.2000 Navy seals 2 (Us seals), dir. Issak Florentine
SFX artist
06.2000 Octopus 2 (Terminal fear), dir.Yossi Wein
SFX artist (come up with new design on the octopus), Foam latex casting, puppeteering, octopus parts
04.2000 Spiders 2, dir. Sam Firstenberg
Artist, casting, set dresing, stand by on set, puppeteering
11.1999 Shark attack 2, dir. David Worth
Artist, water plants (design, sculpted, painted)
09.1999 Octopus, dir.Wossi Wein
Assistant to the SFX coordinator
02.1999 - 03.1999 For the cause, dir. David Douglas,
starring: Dean Caine
VFX coordinator personal assistant to the 2-nd unit director

Other work experience

06.1999 - 09.1999 Art crafts teacher in Jewish international camp
Szarvas, Hungary
03.1999 - 06.1999 Assistant animator
Pillion films, Sofia; BG-Germany Company
1997 Art teacher
In Jewish springs & summer camps
1993 - 1999 Art & crafts teacher in the Bulgarian Jewish community
Art private teacher

Education

09.2002 - 03.2003 BEAUTY LINE VIENNA MAKE UP SCHOOL, Vienna, Austria
Make-up Artist Degree Diploma, first in class
09.1996 - 07.2001 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TEATER AND MOVIE
QUALIFICATION: DIRECTOR OF ANIMATION
DEGREE: MASTER
1996 - 1999 Government scholarship
1998 1 term New Bulgarian University
Program: Computer graphics and multimedia
1995 - 1996 1-year New Bulgarian University
In the program THEATRE SCENOGRAPHY
1990 - 1995 Special art school "Marin Drinov" - Sofia
QUALIFICATION: Design, art teacher

Exhibitions & Competitions

20.07.1997 Exhibition
"PICTURES FROM KOVACHEVITZA"
Sofia,"HOUSE OF MOVIE"
1995 Took part in a competition
"We gave something to the world"
SPECIAL referee award
1993 Took a part in
Art exhibition of my High School

Languages spoken

English
Russian
Macedonian
Serbian
Bulgarian

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