Radostina Neykova

Radostina Neykova is Professor, Program Director of the Animation department, and Program Director of the Faculty “Production and post-production” in the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) “Krastyo Sarafov”. She is a Bulgarian director, animator, children’s book illustrator and academic. Radostina uses non-traditional, handmade embroidery and textile cut-out animation techniques in her films, and she directed the award-winning animated shorts The Boy who erased kisses (2025), Marmalade (2020), Ugly Fairy Tale (2018), Grumpy Does Repairs (2015), Trip (2011) and others. She has held solo exhibitions on her embroidery and illustration techniques in various locations in Europe, America and Africa and delivers animation workshops across Europe. She makes Animation workshops and Master class in France, Cuba, Serbia, Poland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Russia, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Germany. Radostina Neykova is a member of many prestigious Bulgarian film and animation organizations, and the author of several academic books, including Aesthetics, technology and communication in cinema for adolescent audiences (2022), Contemporary Cinema for Children (2016), and Comic Books on the Contemporary Screen (2009).