Liza Boeva

Liza Boeva (Bulgarian: Лиза Боева) is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. She lectures on the history of arts and co-founded the educational platform Filizi 33. Boeva is also a member of the European Film Academy.^[1] Her documentary William Shakespeare: The Most Famous Person Who Never Existed was noted by the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition in connection with the Shakespeare authorship question. ^[2]

Elizaveta (Liza) Boeva (born 22 August 1978 in Sofia, Bulgaria) completed her secondary education at the Italian Lyceum in Sofia in 1997. She earned a master's degree in Journalism and Public Relations in 2001 and another in History of Arts in 2003 at the Saint Petersburg State University in Russia. She received a master's degree in Film and TV Directing in 2006 from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Since 2006, Liza Boeva has lectured on the history of arts in Europe and the United States, with a focus on the Italian and Northern Renaissance. She has been a lecturer at the New Bulgarian University since 2011.^[3] In the same year, she received her PhD with a dissertation on the Beat Generation. In 2016, Boeva was promoted to associate professor.^[4] She has also been a guest lecturer at institutions such as Varna Free University Chernorizets Hrabar, as well as at cultural centers,^[5][6][7] museums,^[8] and art galleries^[9][10][11]

She is a screenwriter and director of documentaries and feature films, recognized with international awards.^[12] Among them: The Summer of Mona Lisa (the movie was bought for broadcasting by the Bulgarian National Television.^[13] I was Jack Kerouac,^[14][15] William Shakespeare: The Most Famous Person Who Never Existed.^[16][17] The movie was bought for broadcasting by the Bulgarian National Television.^[18]

In 2017 she created (alongside the actor Izko Finzi) the educational platform on History of Arts Filizi 33. Some of the recent courses are on: Italian and Northern Renaissance, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel The Elder, Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde.

Boeva is also the author of articles and critical reviews on the history of arts.^{[19][20][21][22][23]}

• The Beat Generation and Hippies. America, 1947–1972. Sofia, 2011. Published by: Avangard Prima. ISBN 978-954-323-904-7^[59]
• The William Shakespeare Project. Sofia, 2019. Published by: Filizi 33^[60][61]
• Franz Kafka. 'Metamorphosis'. A directors' analysis. Sofia, 2024. Published by: Filizi 33. ISBN 978-619-92797-2-4^{[62][63][64][65]}

Elizaveta (Liza) Boeva was born August 22^nd 1978 in Sofia in the family of the engineers Liubov and Plamen Boev. She has a younger brother Boris Boev, PhD on History, awarded with the First Prize "St. Paisiy Hilendarski" state award from the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria (2020)^[66] and with the Third Prize "Young Scientist of the Year" (2022)^[67]

In 2011 she married the actor Izko Finzi. Their daughter Matilda was born in 2017.

• Izko Finzi
• History of art
• Beat Generation
• European Film Academy
• Shakespeare authorship question
• National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts

• Official website
• Liza Boeva at IMDb