Milčo Mančevski

Milcho Manchevski
Born	Milcho Manchevski October 18, 1959 (1959-10-18) (age 52) Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Other names	Milcho Manchevski
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, actor
Years active	1978 – present
Awards	Golden Lion 1996 Before the Rain Silver Condor for Best Foreign Film 1996 Before the Rain Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film 1997 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.mk/

Macedonia Timeless - Archeology

Macedonia Timeless - Temples

Macedonia Timeless

Before the rain

"Dust" Trailer

"Shadows" Trailer

Milcho Manchevski (Macedonian: Милчо Манчевски [ˈmiltʃɔ ˈmantʃɛvski] ( listen); born 18 October 1959 in Skopje, Macedonia), usually credited as Milcho Manchevski, is a film director and screenwriter from Macedonia.

Biography

Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films "Before the Rain" (1994), "Dust'" (2001), Shadows" (2007) and "Mothers" (2011), over 50 short forms, including “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 "1.73") and best MTV video (for "TENNESSEE", which The 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 Berlinale 2011.

His films are part of the curricula at numerous universities worldwide, 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."

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

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

He authored a (very small) book of fiction, "THE GHOST OF MY MOTHER" and 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, most notably as a Head of the Directing Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Film program.

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

His 2010 film Mothers was selected as the Macedonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards^[1] but it didn't make the final shortlist.^[2] It was also screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.^[3]

Projects/Awards

Awards

• Ambassador of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, 2007
• "Mother Theresa" for Humanitarian Work, 2002
• "October 11" for Major Achievement (highest peacetime award, Republic of Macedonia), 1995

Awards and nominations for "Before the Rain"

• Silver Condor for Best Foreign Film, 1996, Argentina
• Independent Spirit Award 1996: Best Foreign-Language Film
• Oscar Nomination 1995: Best Foreign-Language Film
• Venice Film Festival 1994: Golden Lion for Best Film
• Venice 1994: FIPRESCI Prize (International Critics Prize)
• Venice 1994: The UNICEF Prize 1994
• Venice 1994: Premio Cinemavenire (Young Viewers' Prize)
• Venice 1994: Audience Prize
• Venice 1994: Rolling Venice Award from the City of Venice
• Venice 1994: Leoncino d'oro, awarded by the Italian students
• Venice 1994: International Catholic Organization for the Cinema
• Venice 1994: Kodak Award for Best First Feature
• Venice 1994: Francesco Pasineti Syndicate Award for Best Actor to Rade Serbedzija
• Toronto Festival 1994: runner-up in audience vote
• São Paulo Festival 1994: Audience Award for Best Film
• Puerto Rico Festival 1994: Jury Award for Best Film
• Puerto Rico Festival 1994: Audience Award for Best Film
• Puerto Rico Festival 1994: Best Director
• Puerto Rico Festival 1994: Best First Film
• Stockholm Festival 1994: Best Debut Film
• Mons Festival, Belgium, 1995: Charlot d'or
• St Petersburg Festival of Festivals 1995: Grand Prix
• Burgos Festival, Spain, 1995: winner of the single Festival Prize
• Gorizia Festival of Screenplay, Italy, 1995: Best Screenplay
• Film Forum, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1995: Best Film
• Panteleria, Italy, 1995: UNESCO Prize
• Warsaw Film Fest, 1995: Audience Award
• Austria, 1995: Catholic Film Commission Prize
• David di Donatello Special Award to a non-Italian film, Italy, 1995
• Swedish Film Institute, 1995: Golden Bug for Best Foreign Film
• Mediterranean Prize for Peace and Tolerance
• List of Best 1,000 Films Ever Made: The New York Times

Nominations for "Dust"

• Golden Reel Award Nomination (Best Sound Editing), 2002

Awards for "Shadows"

• Golden Ladybug, 2008: Best Actress (Vesna Stanojevska in Shadows)
• Golden Ladybug, 2008: Best Music Video (Jungle Shadow in Shadows)
• Park City Film Music Festival, 2008: Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement, Ryan Shore, composer
• Syracuse Film Festival, 2008: Best Actress, Vesna Stanojevska in Shadows

Awards for "Mothers"

• Minsk International film festival Listopad: "Award for Film as Art Phenomenon", 2011
• Directing award – LIFFE 2011
• Cinema City Festival: FEDEORA (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean), 2011
• FEST: Critics Award for Best FEST Film “Nebojsa Djukelic”, 2011
• FEST: Special Jury Prize in the selection "Europe Out of Europe", 2011
• MTV Adria Movie Awards: Best Movie nomination, 2011
• Macedonian Academy Award Submission: Best Foreign-Language Film, 2010
• Fest, 2011: Critics Award for Best FEST Film
• Fest 2011: Special Jury Prize "Europe Out of Europe"

Awards for short forms

• Macedonia Timeless, Temples and Archeology; Campaign Macedonia Timeless - Mobius Statuette Award, 1st place, Television, Recreation – Entertainment category, January 2010
• Macedonia Timeless - Award for Best Commercial Spot at the International Tourfilm Festival in Plock, Poland, May, 2009
• Macedonia Timeless - Blue Danube Award for Best Cultural Tourist Film at the SILAFEST International Festival of Tourist and Ecology Films, Serbia, September, 2009
• Tennessee - Rolling Stone Magazine, 1994: one of 100 best videos ever
• Tennessee - The Village Voice, 1993: List of Best Videos
• Tennessee - MTV, 1992: Best Video: Rap
• Tennessee - Billboard, 1992: Best Video: New Pop/Rock Act
• 1.72 - Belgrade Alternative, 1985: Best Experimental Film

Selected filmography (as director)

Feature films

• Before the Rain (1994)
• Dust (2001)
• Shadows (2007)
• Mothers (2010)

Television

• The Wire ("Game Day") (2002)

Music videos

• Nina Spirova - Eden baknez (2007)
• Kiril Dzajkovski - Jungle Shadow (2007)
• Kiril Dzajkovski - Primitive Science (2001)
• Kiril Dzajkovski - The Dead Are Waiting (2001)
• Kiril Dzajkovski - Brothel Tango (2001)
• Roachford - This Generation (1994)
• Arno Hintjens - Vive ma liberte (1993)
• Big Bub - You're Telling Me Stories (1992)
• George Lamond - Baby I believe in You (1992)
• Sonia Dada - You Ain't Thinking About Me (1992)
• Black Sheep - Similak Child (1992)
• Widowmaker - Widowmaker (1992)
• Curtis Stigers - Never Saw a Miracle (1992)
• Big Bub - I Don't Mind (1992)
• Aurra - Just a Little Love (1992)
• 2 Too Many - Just My Imagination (1992)
• Main Source - Fakin' the Funk (1992)
• Degrees of Motion - Shine on (1992)
• Degrees of Motion - Do You Want It Right Now (1992)
• Hard Knox - A Dirty Cop Named Harry (1992)
• Robyn Springer - Forever and Ever (1992)
• UMC's - One to Grow on (1992)
• Arrested Development - Tennessee (1992)
• Riff - If You're Serious (1991)
• Deskee - Kid Get Hyped (1991)
• Way to go - Fever (1991)
• Partners in Kryme - Undercover (1990)
• Banji - A Word to Mother (1990)
• Bastion - Hot Day in Mexico (1985)
• Leb i sol - Aber dojde, Donke (1983)
• Leb i sol - Wavelength (1983)
• Leb i sol - Damar (1983)

Published art

• Europe and the Other, Europe as the Other, Bo Strath, 2000 (front cover photo)
• Kiril Džajkovski - "Religion and Sex", 2000 (album cover design and photo)
• "The Bastion Sessions", 2005 (album cover design)
• "Various Artists", 2007 (album cover design)
• "Five drops of dream", 2010 (An Exhibition of Photographic Compositions)

External links

• Official Home Page
• Milcho Manchevski at the Internet Movie Database

References

1. ^ "Manchevski's "Mothers" selected for Panorama programme at 61. Berlinale". mia.com.mk. http://www.mia.com.mk/default.aspx?vId=77389567&lId=2&pmId=505. Retrieved 2010-10-04. 
2. ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2011/20110119.html. Retrieved 2011-01-19. 
3. ^ "Panorama 2011 with Renowned Directors, Three Films on India and Many New Discoveries". berlinale.de. 2011-01-19. http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/panorama/pan-presse-detail_8596.html. Retrieved 2011-02-19. 

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Name	Manchevski, Milcho
Alternative names	Manchevski, Milcho
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Date of birth	1959-10-18
Place of birth	Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
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