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Maria Bakalova

Maria Bakalova

2 films · 150 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20202022

Born 4 June 1996 · Burgas, Bulgaria

Maria Valcheva Bakalova is a Bulgarian actress. She has received various accolades, including a Critics' Choice Movie Award and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Born and raised in Burgas, Bakalova began her career in Bulgarian cinema while attending the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. She mostly portrayed dramatic roles in films such as Transgression (2017), The Father (2019), Last Call (2020), and Women Do Cry (2021).

How their films are shot

Measured across 150 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Maria takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day, 62% natural — the look of the work Maria takes.

Time of day

Day56%
Night31%
Interior13%

Lighting

Natural62%
Low key21%
High key15%

Shot size

Medium62%
Closeup13%
Wide13%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level93%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral70%
Tense16%
Ominous8%
Chaotic4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 150 frames from Maria Bakalova's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.