Val Todorov is a writer, director, visionary and activist. He finished Physics at Sofia University and MFA program in Film and Media Arts at Temple University, Philadelphia. He was a co-author of the first independent project for Constitution of Bulgaria. His science fiction book "Irkalla, the Land of the Dead" was a Bulgarian bestseller. He was a co-founder of the Bulgarian Indymedia.org. From 1991 to 2012 he lived in the USA. He took part in the World Social Forum, Occupy Bulgaria, Life After Capitalism and he is actively engaged in alternative models of globalized capitalism. His interests are in cognitive science, cultural anthropology, evolutionary game theory and philosophy.
Val completed the Ecovillage Design Education program of Gaia Education at Findhorn, Scotland.
"Bulgaria, This Eternal Heresy" (2014) is a full-length feature film by Val Todorov. He financed it with his personal funds and worked on it for three years as a writer, director, producer and editor. This genre bending road movie was billed as a "fictional documentary, musical anthropological, scientific magical, eco anarchic utopian journey in a landscape of 8 parts". It was nominated for Best Director and Best Cinematography at the 2014 Bulgarian Film Academy Awards.