Bulgarian filmmaker Adela Peeva was born in Razgrad. She graduated from the Academy for Theater, Cinema, Radio, and Television in Belgrade in 1970 with a degree in film directing. Peeva has made more than 50 documentaries and one feature film, which have been released in the U.S., Germany, Hungary, Russia, Austria, Poland, and France. In 1992 she established her own company, Adela Media Film & TV Productions Ltd. She has received many Bulgarian and International Awards as both director and producer. Her films have screened at film festivals around the world, including Oberhausen, Leipzig, Selb, Prix Europe - Berlin, Bilbao, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Creteil, Buxton, Bacau, Trento, Bombay, Istanbul, Ankara, Loule, Sarajevo, Minneapolis, Samos, Kalamata, Stanford, and others.