Petya (Pett) Corby, Pett Corby Productions - Founder, Producer and Author --- At the age of 26 she had already had a complete set of successful multimedia creative experience – worked for radio stations, TV, newspaper.....
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Her work career started at the age of 19 in 1986 with her writing and presenting one hour children,s radio shows at the National Radio in Bulgaria. The following year she became an Assistant Direct at the National TV for the documentary series Whispers of the City, dedicated to preserving Rousse,s (the city she was born) architectural inheritance from demolition. Its biggest achievement was the rescue of the city,s theatre - fully functioning today! ....
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Pett returned to radio again writing and presenting her Film radio show at Radio Pristis in 1989. The same year she was at a women-only demonstration against the 8-years chlorine pollution held in front of Rousse,s Town Hall. The women-only meeting had an immense impact on Pett that influenced her decision to become a political journalist, correspondent for the first opposition newspaper Democracy from Dec 1991-Dec 1994.....
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She became a Co-Founder and Executive Director at the Film Festival Sexaginata Prista in 1993. It was set up to celebrate 100 years of cinema with the theme Women in Film. The main speaker at the event was to be the New York filmmaker Ally Acker and author of the book, Reel Women: Pioneers of the cinema, 1897 to the Present http://www.amazon.com/Reel-Women-Pioneers-Cinema-Present/dp/0826405797. Some of the guests invited at the Festival were Liliana Cavani, Marta Mesarosh, Terry Jones, from the Monty Python Fame http://www.terry-jones.net/main.htm, Vanessa Redgrave and many more. The festival was to take place on a ship cruising down from Budapest, (where the cinematographer started its journey to its Bulgarian premier in Rousse in the winter of 1897) Bratislava, Belgrade and closing with events in Ruse. Then the bank of Bulgaria officially collapsed in 1995 the Festival ship went down with it too. After this event Pett moved to London and studied film at Panico Film Studio http://www.panicofilms.com/courses/ run by the Monty Python sound editor Bob Doyle in Nov 1996. During her study she was inspired to write a multimedia theatre play based on a book of poetry Gothic written by the Canadian author David Day. She became a member of ITC – London,s Independent Theatre Council in 1997 http://www.itc-arts.org/, where she met her mentor & tutor the West End Playwright Tony Craze http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/craze-tony.html . They are about to start work on the final draft of the play that will be aimed at London,s West End theatre land and Broadway...
Petya (Pett) Corby -- Founder, Producer and Author....
Pett can be reached at: bestseville@yahoo.co.uk....
MySpace: www.myspace.com/pettcorby ....
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