Portfolio
Editing
Over 25 years of editing experience in film, television and advertising, with a musician’s feel for rhythm and a director’s approach to drama and storytelling.
Television productions
“Jukebox: Love Apartments”, “Commercial Break”, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”, “I Want a Job”, “I Have a Dream”, Bulgaria’s first reality show ‐ “Big Brother” (2004), and others.
Television series ‐ editor
“Glass Home”, “Revolution Z”, “The Tree of Life”, and others.
Feature films and documentaries ‐ editing, online editing and finishing
“Stoichkov”, “Deacon Levski”, “Inches from the Ground”, “Yatagan”, “Aurora” by Jackie Stoev and Nikolay Boshnakov, “Against the Current” by Konstantin Zankov, and others.
Colour Grading
Colour grading for documentaries, commercials and short films. Shot matching and developing a look tailored to each project.
Online conforming and finishing
Rebuilding the edit with original media, quality control and preparing final versions, including preparation and creation of a DCP for cinema screening.
Post-production supervision
Organising and coordinating post-production ‐ planning workflows, aligning teams, quality control and preparing for final delivery.
Projects
“Because I Love Bad Weather”, “I Don’t Like You”, “Ashes Over the Sun”, “Godless”, “Inches from the Ground”, “Some Sofia Bards and Other Local Birds”, “Deacon Levski”, “Stoichkov”, and others.
DIT (Digital Imaging Technician)
On-set digital media management ‐ copying footage with data integrity verification, organising original media, creating proxies and preparing material for editing. Metadata management and applying LUT/CDL settings for reviewing footage.
Projects
“Avé”, “Inches from the Ground”, “Heights”, “Stoyan”, “Godless”, “The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father and His Son”, “XIIa”, “Yatagan”, “Non-Migrants”, “Lin”, “Zohi Sdom”, “Jarhead 2: Field of Fire”, and numerous commercials, music videos and other productions.
Professional Background
Ruslan Grudev ‐ Rocko is an editor, online conforming editor, post-production supervisor and DaVinci Resolve Certified Trainer with over 25 years of experience in film, television and advertising. He has worked at Nova Television, Camera Ltd, Chouchkov Bros and RedVertex, and on productions for bTV and BNT. He develops Digital Villager Post and has experience as a DIT and as a lecturer in editing and post-production at South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, where he graduated in Film and Television Directing.















