Milcho Manchevski

Milcho Manchevski
Born Milcho Manchevski
Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia 1959
Occupation Film director, screenwriter, photographer, writer, artist
Years active 1978 – present
Awards

Golden Lion 1994 Before the Rain
Academy Award nomination 1994 Before the Rain
Silver Condor for Best Foreign Film
1995 Before the Rain
Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film
1995 Before the Rain
MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video
1992 "Tennessee"
Billboard Music Award for Best Video: New Pop/Rock Act

1992 "Tennessee"
Website http://www.manchevski.com/
Macedonia Timeless - Archeology
Macedonia Timeless - Temples
Macedonia Timeless
"Before the Rain" Trailer
"Dust" Trailer
"Shadows" Trailer

Milcho Manchevski (Macedonian: Милчо Манчевски [ˈmilt͡ʃɔ ˈmant͡ʃɛfski], born October 18, 1959), is a New York-based Academy award-nominated Macedonian writer-director, photographer and artist.

Biography

Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films Bikini Moon (in post-production, 2017), Before the Rain (1994), Dust (2001), Shadows (2007) and Mothers (2010), over 50 short forms, including Thursday (2013) and Tennessee for Arrested Development (1991). He has also been a director on HBO’s The Wire. He’s authored two exhibitions of photographs, works of fiction and performance art.

Before the Rain won an Academy-Award nomination and thirty awards, including Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice, Independent Spirit, FIPRESCI, UNESCO, best film of the year in Argentina, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, and other awards in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, etc.

The New York Times included Before the Rain on its list of the best 1,000 films ever made.

Manchevski won awards for best experimental film (for 1.74) and best MTV video (for Tennessee, which Rolling Stone placed on the list of the 100 best videos ever).

Dust was the opening-night film of the Venice Film Festival.

Both Shadows and Mothers were the Macedonian Academy Awards entries.

Mothers screened in the Panorama section of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.[1] It was selected among the 40 European films of the year by the EFA committee and won 7 festival awards.

Manchevski won awards for best experimental film (for 1.73), best MTV video (for Tennessee, which The Rolling Stone placed on the list of the 100 best videos ever), and best commercial (for Macedonia Timeless (2009)).

His films are part of the curriculum at numerous universities worldwide (Pontifical Catholic University and Rio de Janeiro), and have been discoursed at a number of conferences. The University of Leipzig (Germany) and the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) hosted academic conferences dedicated, respectively, to Before the Rain and Dust.

Retrospectives of the work have been held at Cineteca di Bologna (1996/2011), De Balie Cultural Center, Cinema and Media Department, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2005),Sundance Channel, USA (2005), Akademski Kino Klub, Belgrade, Serbia (2005),

Hanoi Cinematheque (2012), Dom na kinoto, Sofia, Bulgaria (2012), Kulturni Centar, Novi Sad, Serbia (2012), Mediterranean Film Festival, Izmir (2013),Shoot, cousin, shoot! Skopje (2015).

He has published fiction, essays and op-ed pieces in New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere Della Sera, Sineast, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Pravda.

Manchevski has staged performance art with the group 1AM (which he founded) and by himself.

He authored the (short) book of post-conceptualist fiction, The Ghost of My Mother and the (even shorter) book on faith and the plane of reality in a work of art, Truth and Fiction: Notes on (Exceptional) Faith in Art. He is also author of two books of photographs Street (1999) and Five Drops of Dream (2010) which accompany the two photo exhibitions.

He has lectured at a number of universities, cinematheques, art museums and art institutes, including – as Head of Directing Studies – at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Film program. He is currently teaching at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College.

He has also taught, lectured and held workshops at the London Film School, Cambridge University, University of Chicago, Yale, Hanoi Cinematheque, Cineteca di Bologna, Binger Film Lab (Amsterdam), Temple University (Philadelphia), Tisch Singapore, Columbia University, his alma mater Southern Illinois University, the state film school in Sofia, Elon University, Marubi Film Academy in Tirana (Albania), Oxford Brookes University, the German state film school Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, University of Tsukuba (Japan), FDU (Belgrade), University of Oklahoma, Bielefeld University (Germany), University of Texas at Austin, Multimedia Museum in Moscow, Pratt Institute, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Brown University, several festivals (Venice, Goa, Trieste, Aruba, Manaki Brothers, Madrid Experimental, SEEfest in Vienna...) among others.

Manchevski's films have screened at more than two hundred festivals, and have been distributed in close to 50 countries (theatrically, TV, cable and video).

He holds an honorary doctorate from VGIK in Moscow, Russia. He is a member of the DGA and the PEN Club.

Projects/awards

Awards

Awards and nominations for Before the Rain

Nominations for "Dust"

Awards for "Shadows"

Awards for "Mothers"

Awards for short films

Selected filmography (as director)

Feature films

Television

Music videos

Short Films

Art exhibitions

Writing

References

From wikipedia

  1. ↑ "Panorama 2011 with Renowned Directors, Three Films on India and Many New Discoveries". berlinale.de. 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2011-02-19.

From external sites

Rain

Dust

Shadows

Mothers

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