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Women In Film Who To Watch 2026, featured in FORBES.COM
Biliana and Marina Grozdanova, Eastern Western, for directing and writing

NOVA Television (Bulgaria) - 12/2026 - TV Segment

BULGARIAN NEWS AGENCY - 12/2026
“Bulgarian Film Eastern Western Hits US Cinemas”

COWBOYS & INDIANS MAGAZINE - January 2026 - Feature Interview - ON STANDS NOW and available to read ONLINE:
Eastern Western Tells Immigrant Story On-Screen and Behind the Camera.

LETTERBOXD - Ongoing Reviews
“An absolutely gorgeous film! Shades of Days of Heaven, Meek's Cutoff, or even Red Dead Redemption with its shallow depth of field, 3rd person, documentary style, closely following the cast through the landscape. I loved the way it spans across time in the American west only to circle back to its Balkan roots in the end, just wonderful execution!”

RICHMOND MAGAZINE - 10/2025 - Film Review
“These are big-sky, broad vistas of John Ford and “Lonesome Dove” territory, delivered in a poetic and elegant manner by directors Biliana and Marina Grozdanova.”

35 MILIMETROS - SPAIN - 10/2025 - Grand Prize Announcement

DIARIO DE ALMERIA - SPAIN - 10/2025 - Grand Prize Announcement

MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - 04/2025 - Grant Announcement
Big Sky Film Grant Awards El Jinete Films 100K for new film

DAYTIME TV, WFLA (News Channel 8) - TV Interview - 04/2025, Tampa, Florida 
‘Eastern Western’ brings an immigrant’s perspective to early days in the American West

NBC Morning Show, WXII 12 - TV Interview, 04/2025, Winston Salem, NC

DNEVNIK - BULGARIA - 03/2025 - Interview & Feature Article

DIR.BG - BULGARIA - 03/2025 - Interview & Feature Article

BILLINGS GAZETTE - 12/2024 - Interview & Feature Article
“Eastern Western is set in the 1880s but feels right at home in 2024. […] The sisters are also bucking trends by being female filmmakers making a Western, a genre traditionally dominated by men on both sides of the camera.”

NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE - 10/2024 - Film Review
“A gorgeous Western that traverses the grand vistas, and crippling tragedies, that defined a burgeoning America, “Eastern Western” holds a complicated relationship with the concept of ambition. […] What the film finds in its end moments is a measure of peace, not in conquest but in calm. A peace we might hope our pilgrims, and even ourselves, are able to one day find solace in.”

LOCAL NEWS MATTERS - 9/2024 - Film Review
“The sister directing team of Biliana and Marina Grozdanova create a beautiful, majestic portrait of the untamed West (the cinematography is staggering), but don’t be fooled by the beauty and languid pace. Numerous developments in this three-act drama, making its world premiere here, will jolt you right out of your seat and make you misty eyed.”

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - 9/2024 - Exclusive Preview

SCREEN DAILY WORLD OF LOCATIONS - 5/2025 - 10/2025 Cannes Edition

THE CHICAGO MAROON - 10/2017 - Feature Interview: Alumni Filmmakers Document Music Across Time and Space
Sister filmmakers Biliana (A.M. ‘11) and Marina Grozdanova (A.B.’ 13) partnered on a documentary series about the Voyager spacecraft’s Golden Record.

MY SPILT MILK - 10/2014 - Film Review
”It wasn’t their intention to make a real life Spinal Tap movie, but the band goes there anyway at times. When bandleader Igz Kincaid says that Kiss and Guns ’N Roses can’t last forever and that people are going to want something else, it’s not possible to avoid a WTF reaction.”

THE CHICAGO MAROON - 05/2014 - Film Announcement

MUSIC FILM WEB - 04/2014 - Film Review
”A pair of globe-trotting Bulgarian sisters probably aren’t the first people you’d expect to be making a film about an unabashedly retro metal band, but this isn’t your average metal band, and these aren’t your average sisters.”