plamen goranov
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intro’d to Plamen’s story here via Andre Andreev (posted on fb by John B):
Flame (Пламен) — short film about Plamen Goranov – may 2015
first reports call him a loner – and that actions had nothing to do with protests
what is art..
1990s varna is a great city to live in.. 2002 street tensions begin
why can you get beaten up on the street – who is responsible for this
mayor for 15 yrs – surrounded himself with a group of economic interests which monopolized the city – became natural center for protest because monopolies were so obvious
people had no sense that state was there to protect them
Plamen not happy with situation.. always talked about change and revolution.. ie: change would not happen unless people changed themselves. he talked about a revolution in the way people think.
at some point.. he understood the protest was going nowhere..
national myth in bulgaria – nothing is possible so don’t try
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Directed and produced by dress code
Editor: Andre Andreev, Maria Stanisheva
Writer: Martin Marinos
Cinematography: Andre Andreev
Sound and Composition: You Too Can Woo
Research: Richard Kroll
Executive Producers: G. Dan Covert and Andre Andreev
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Plamen Goranov (Bulgarian: Пламен Горанов) (20 October 1976 – 3 March 2013) was a Bulgarian photographer and mountain climber, and a Varna-based local protest leader of the 2013 Bulgarian nationwide protests. He became a symbol of the Bulgarian social protest movement and a catalyst for nationwide protests and government resignations when on 20 February 2013 he set himself on fire in front of the Varna municipal building. He died from his injuries in a local hospital on 3 March, Bulgarian Liberation Day, a Bulgarian national holiday celebrating liberation from five centuries of Ottoman rule. Goranov protested against the organized crime group TIM and the TIM-controlled Varna mayor Kiril Yordanov.
After setting himself on fire, Goranov became the subject of discussions and received active support on social networks. Approximately 300 people donated blood for transfusion while he was in hospital. On the day of his death, people in Sofia and Varna gathered to pay their respects to Goranov.
Goranov was the first of six Bulgarians who set themselves on fire during the Bulgarian nationwide protest.
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