Jordan Todorov

• Name — Jordan Todorov • Born — 29 May 1980 • Occupation — Film director, Screenwriter, Journalist • Years Active — 1998–present • Education — NATFA • Website — http: www.jordantodorov.com

Todorov began his career as a journalist in 2002, working for the weekly newspaper 168 Hours, where he spent several years writing feature stories, interviews and news. Through the years he has earned a reputation for writing about offbeat subjects and characters in a humorous and somewhat surreal way. As a freelance journalist Todorov has written on a wide range of subjects for a number of publications as diverse as Playboy, Esquire, Fotogeschichte, L'Europeo, Vice, Capital, Amica, Expresso, Brava Casa and Abitare. He worked as staff editor for the Bulgarian edition of Rolling Stone until the magazine's closure in September 2011. Todorov has interviewed an array of prominent international figures. His feature interview subjects have included Dita Von Teese, Forrest J Ackerman, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Kevin Warwick, Amos Oz, Isabel Allende, Aubrey De Grey, Alison Goldfrapp, Richard Kern, George Lois, Mark Benecke, Alain de Botton, Bunny Yeager, and Georgina Spelvin among others. He authored a biography of Stephen C. Apostolof due to be published in mid-2012 as a tie-in to his most recent documentary Dad Made Dirty Movies. Todorov was a managing editor of the Bulgarian edition of Max. He writes for Atlas Obscura - an online compendium of "The World's Wonders, Curiosities, and Esoterica”.

In April 2024, Todorov, along with 47 other plaintiffs, primarily descendants of those sentenced by Bulgaria’s post‑World War II People’s Court, filed a collective civil lawsuit against Bulgarian journalist and politician Petar Volgin, a member of the European Parliament representing the citizen quota of the Bulgarian ultranationalist, far-right party Revival. The plaintiffs alleged that Volgin’s public statements glorified and justified the actions of the People’s Court, which was responsible for politically motivated trials, imprisonment and execution of thousands of Bulgarians during the immediate post-war period, and caused moral and psychological harm to the descendants of the victims. They demanded recognition from the court that such statements were offensive, cessation of similar public statements, and financial compensation of 100,000 Bulgarian lev. On 27 August 2025, the Sofia City Court dismissed the case and ruled that Volgin's statements were expressions of personal opinion on historical and political issues and as such were protected by the freedom of expression provisions of the Bulgarian Constitution. The ruling underlined the challenge of legally restricting historical commentary whilst preserving constitutional rights. Todorov and co-claimants publicly underscored that although the case was dismissed, it had contributed to larger discussions on historical justice, remembrance of the People's Court, and legal protection for the victims' families. The case is currently under appeal.

In October 2006, Todorov, a journalist working for the Bulgarian newspaper 168 Hours at the time, sent a written request under the Bulgarian Access to Public Information Law to the Ministry of Interior to obtain access to documents in the possession of the Ministry’s housing department, namely those on the distribution and subsequent sale of government housing. The purpose was journalistic investigation and reporting. In November 2006, the Ministry of Interior denied access, citing reasons that Todorov challenged as inconsistent with the legal framework for transparency. Assisted by the Bulgarian Access to Information Programme, Todorov filed a lawsuit before the Supreme Administrative Court to order the Ministry to disclose the requested documents. On 11 July 2007, a three-member panel of the Supreme Administrative Court’s Fifth Division ruled in Todorov’s favor, repealing the Ministry’s refusal and remanding the case for proper reconsideration. The Ministry appealed, but on 15 November 2007, a five-member panel of the Supreme Administrative Court’s First Division upheld the lower court’s decision. Yordan Todorov v. the Minister of Interior is regarded as a landmark case in Bulgaria for the practical enforcement of the Access to Public Information Act. It stressed that the administrative bodies cannot deny public information on speculative concerns and explained authorities' procedural duties to ensure openness along with respect for privacy rights.

In 2011 he was a member of the FIPRESCI jury at the 15th Sofia International Film Festival. The next year he was a member of the jury at the 10th In the Palace International Short Film Festival. In October 2013, Todorov curated "Bunny's Pin-up Girls" - an exhibition of photos by the American photographer Bunny Yeager in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2016 he translated into Bulgarian the New York Times bestseller Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art - a non-fiction book about the mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961. Todorov also translated into Bulgarian River of the Sacred Monkey (1970) – a travelogue detailing the adventures of Dimitar Krustev (1920-2013), a Bulgarian-born artist and adventurer, who in 1968 became the first person to successfully navigate the Usumacinta River on the border of Mexico and Guatemala.

• The Queen of Crypto (2024)(Field Producer) • Plamen (2015)(Producer) • Dad Made Dirty Movies (2011)(Director/Writer) • The Boy Who Was a King (2011)(Researcher) • Concrete Pharaohs (2010)(Director/Writer)