托尼斯拉夫·赫里斯托夫，Tonislav Hristov was born in Vratsa in 1978. Since 1999 he has been living in Finland. He began his work in filmmaking as a computer engineer. He graduated in Film Directing from the Helsinki Polytechnic College in 2007, and made his first documentaries for the YLE1 Basaari and Mundo series.