Tchavdar is an Emmy-nominated producer, director, and editor who has crafted award-winning films, commercials, and television shows both in the US and abroad. He produced the feature thriller The Nevsky Prospect for Amazon Studios and field produced the “Horse to Water” episode of USA Network’s Covert Affairs. His field producing credits also include projects for History Channel, PBS, SF1 (Switzerland), Channel 1 and MTV (Russia). He has produced commercials for Adobe, Cisco, NASA, TELE2, and MTV Russia. For National Geographic, he co-directed Finding the Next Earth with Dana Berry and edited Alien Earths, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. He was one of the editors of the documentaries We Live in Public (Grand Jury Prize at Sundance) and One Lucky Elephant (Best Documentary Editing Award at Woodstock Film Festival) as well as the narrative feature Svolochi (MTV Russia Best Film Award). His documentary The Desert of Forbidden Artwas nominated for multiple Emmy awards. He also directed and produced a permanent multi-media installation on Perestroika for the Jewish Museum of Tolerance in Moscow. Tchavdar was awarded an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Tchavdar lives in Los Angeles, California.