Vlado Trifonov is a Bulgarian journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He writes film, television, and theater criticism for Bulgarian and foreign language journals, and has made many documentaries, including Paradise with Two Faces, Messages on Call, Black Foot-White Hand, Dead Zone, Tale of Stone and Wood, White Town, and From The Top of The Mountain. He is the recipient of the Austria Press Agency Recognition Award for Writing for Central and Eastern Europe, as well as prestigious prizes in EU video & photography competitions.