Andrey Paounov is a writer-director best known for his documentary feature films. He has worked as a bartender in Prague, a cook in Washington DC, a gardener in Toronto, a boom operator in New York and an accounting clerk in San Francisco. He graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2000. He made his debut with documentary feature, Georgi and the Butterflies, that won the Silver Wolf at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2004.