"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are forced to change ourselves."

                                                                                                        Victor Frankl

Ivanka Zhekova Vitanova (Vanya Zhekova) is a documentary filmmaker, essayist, screenwriter and producer. Explores our recent past. He is the author of the documentaries "The Goryans" and "Catharsis", with which he participates as a guest lecturer at universities and international institutes. He published the book "Frankly about the Eiffel Tower" in 2012

In the summer of 1989, she made a statement on Radio Free Europe on the occasion of her thwarted trip to Paris, where the World Youth Forum, 200 years since the French Revolution, was being held.

He speaks English.

Professional biography

until May 2012. Editor in the press center of the Public Relations Directorate of the BNB

2005 - 2011 PR and manager of the Mmobili Art Salon in Sofia

2002 - 2004 Author and editor at the National Educational Television ESET

2001 - 2002 Journalist in the newspapers "Quo Vadis" and "Chronicles"

 1998 - 2000. Journalistic and publishing activity 1995 - 1997 Teacher at the private school "Drita" - Sofia

1989 - 1994 Preschool teacher in his hometown of Yambol Host of the children's radio show "Fut" on the municipal radio

One of the founders of the first private newspaper "Democrat" in the city

1980 - 1989 Teacher in a kindergarten - Madan Head of theater studios