In 2011 Todorov wrote and directed the documentary '' Dad Made Dirty Movies '' ( 2011 ) , that tells the story of the late American sexploitation producer and director Stephen C. Apostolof . The idea of the documentary dawned on Todorov in 2005 , when he received an odd email from a friend : " Look who filmed the erotic scripts by Ed Wood ! " . The film is produced by AGITPROP in association with Filmtank ( Hamburg ) , ZDF and Arte . Principal photography began in New York City in December 2009 , and continued in California , Nevada and Arizona in May 2010 . '' Dad Made Dirty Movies '' features interviews with Apostolof 's children and his third wife Shelley , stars from his films , cult filmmakers , film critics and film historians . '' Dad Made Dirty Movies '' premiered at Visions du Réel International Film Festival and played at more than thirty festivals around the world , including Sydney Underground Film Festival , Transilvania International Film Festival , Trieste Film Festival and Mumbai International Film Festival , among others . The film has been sold in more than thirty territories worldwide . '' Dad Made Dirty Movies '' will air on HBO in the autumn of 2012 . In 2013 Todorov helped produce the short documentary film '' Plamen '' , which features the story of Plamen Goranov , who became a symbol of the Bulgarian social protest movement and a catalyst for nationwide protests and government resignations when on 20 February 2013 he set himself on fire in front of the Varna municipal building . In 2014 Todorov was awarded the MEDIA funded Nipkow Programm fellowship to develop his next documentary film in Berlin - a portrait of the iconic photographer Will McBride
Visions du Réel
Visions du Réel
Jordan Todorov