EXCLUSIVE: Bulgarian actress Irmena Chichikova, seen recently in SXSW 2024 breakout The Black Sea, has signed with L.A.-based boutique management and production company Rewind.
Chichikova appeared opposite Derrick B. Harden in his critically acclaimed American-Bulgarian comedy The Black Sea, co-directed with Crystal Moselle, revolving around a charismatic dreamer from Brooklyn who inadvertently ends up as the only Black person in a small town on the Black Sea in Eastern Europe.
The film was acquired by Metrograph Pictures for the U.S. shortly after its SXSW run and has just opened in L.A. on December 13.
Chichikova previously made her U.S. debut in 2023 in a recurring role in Marvel’s miniseries Secret Invasion, alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Emilia Clarke.
She also starred in the drama Viktoria, which made its debut in the World Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, and won the Golden Rose National Film Festival Award in 2012 for her work in the film I Am You.
Chichikova continues to be repped by United Agents in the UK.
Founded by industry veteran Cory Thompson, Rewind is a boutique management and production company representing actors and filmmakers and developing film and television projects.
Current clients include actors such as SAG winners Joe Chrest (Stranger Things) and Eleonora Romandini (The White Lotus), Caroline Arapoglou (Outer Banks), Nick Creegan (Batwoman), Amy Tyger (Foundation), Sara Serraiocco (Vermiglio), Jordan Doww (The Way Home) and Eugenio Mastrandrea (From Scratch), and filmmakers such as Louisa Connolly-Burnham (Sister Wives), Fiona and Sophia Robert (A New York Story), Cheryl Nichols (Doula), Colby Holt & Sam Probst (Ganymede) and Evan Kelman (Barron’s Cove).
Thompson recently produced Barron’s Cove, which stars Garrett Hedlund, Brittany Snow and Stephen Lang and premiered this fall at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
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