Reni Grueva

Education

“Create A Hit Series: Story Development Workshop”

Writers, Executive Producers & Development Executives with John Yorke — 2020

European TV Drama Lab

Erich Pommer Institute (Germany) & MediaXchange (UK) — 2018

National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Sofia

Major: Dramaturgy — 2005–2009 (incomplete/semester studies)

City College of New York, USA

Communications — 2000–2001

Professional Work

Producer, Screenwriter, Director & Editor — “Zero Motivation” (Comedy Web Series, 2024)

Total screen time: 118 minutes

Over 1,600 subscribers on the official channel: YouTube / Nula Motivacia

Golden Rose (Varna, Bulgaria, 2024) — Nomination: Series of the Year

Swedish International Film Festival (July 2024) — Winner: Best Series

Series Land, Bilbao, Spain (2024) — Nomination: Best Pilot Episode

Selection Sofia Art Week 8, October 15-25, Sofia (2025)

Producer, Screenwriter, Director & Editor — Experimental Video Works

Energy (Oct 2020) — Selected for Sofia Art Week, DOZA Gallery (2024)

Wren (video-poetry, Oct 2022)

Cupidon Tsupidon (Oct 2021)

Urban Fountain (Feb 2021) — Selected at Clapboard Festival (Experimental Documentary)

Hometown (Feb 2020)

Script Consultant

The Lesson — dir. Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov

Emergency Landing — dir. Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov

• The Reaper— dir. Kamen Donev (adaptation of Yordan Yovkov’s novella)

Screenwriter — Television & Film

We, Ours and Yours (TV series)

Revolution Z (TV series)

Citizens in Excess (TV series)

Home Arrest (TV series)

The Newbie (short film, dir. Vito Bonev) — First Bulgarian student short selected at Beijing International Student Film Festival

Industry Recognition

• Best Short Pitch— European TV Drama Lab, 2018
Project Everything Is Sadwon the development pitching session with Victor Levin (Mad Men).