Stories We Were Never Told is a documentary dramatic film about the Holocaust in Bulgaria and beyond. It is based on witnesses testimonies and 35 years of research.  Archival film and photos are blended with animated paintings by artist Martha Aladjem Bloomfield, showing situations we have testimony about but no visual representation.  The animated paintings .  This film visualizes and vocalizes the Jewish narrative in Bulgaria and beyond.

The Optimists: The Story of the Survival of the Bulgarian Jews, explores how different ethnic and religious groups stood by each other in Bulgaria
even during the Holocaust. Bulgaria’s experience offers valuable insight into how people can build bridges between different communities of
different ethnic and religious backgrounds and, in so doing, defend human and civil rights. It is not only a Jewish story. It is a universal one,
powerful in its ability to inform and inspire all audiences. Completed in 2001, the film was the winner of the Jewish Experience Award at the
Jerusalem Film Festival 2000 and won the Peace Prize in the Berlinale 2001.

Monument to Love features a journey of Jacky Comforty with his mother, Ika Comforty Ovadia, for over 25 years to research, document, and
uncover the narrative of the Jewish people during the Holocaust in Bulgaria. As the journey progressed, Ika’s personal story unfolded. She shares
memories and reads passages from her diary which revealed her observations, thoughts and feelings, as a young woman, facing a broken world,
plunging into war. Kind acts of friendship she experienced contrast the cruel times and the dangers she and others escaped. Ika’s story is an
anti-war manifesto, confronting totalitarianism and supremacy, and erecting a Monument to Love. Completed in 2023, the film is the winner of
more than 250 international awards.

Balkan Jazz tells the life story and music of Niko Nissimov and his Jewish friends from the Bulgarian Jazz band, The Optimists. The movie charts
their rise to stardom as a band in late 1930s Bulgaria. The beginning of WWII changed everything for them as Bulgaria joined the Axis powers.
Anti-Jewish laws and restrictions brought the band to a halt. All men were drafted to slave labor camps, and the entire community was on the
verge of extinction. Niko was saved by his friends at the last minute from a transport destined for the death camp of Treblinka. This testimony to
friendship is layered with original music recordings of The Optimists. The private photo albums and archival footage help illustrate this amazing
story of adventure, creativity, and endless optimism in the face of impossible odds. Balkan Jazz was completed in 2024 and the winner of a few
dozen international awards.