| Milčo Mančevski | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Milčo Mančevski |
| Born | October 18 1959 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia |
| Other name(s) | Milcho Manchevski |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, producer, actor |
| Years active | 1978 – present |
| Official site | www.manchevski.com.mk |
Milčo Mančevski (Macedonian: Милчо Манчевски) (born 18 October 1959 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia), usually credited as Milcho Manchevski, is an internationally acclaimed Macedonian film director and screenwriter. Mančevski has directed over 60 film projects, most of them associated with the short film aesthetics. He has also directed several commercials and documentary films. He has published several essays and a book titled My Mother's Spirit. His most notable film is entitled Before the Rain
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Biography
Early life
Milčo Mančevski was born on 16 October, 1959 in Skopje. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (Department for History of Art and Archeology). He then left for the United States and, in 1983, graduated from the Faculty for Film and Photography at the Southern Illinois University.
Early career
In Skopje, he founded the artist collective 1AM, which was active during the 1980s, and was involved in the music group Bastion, which featured the prominent musician Kiril Džajkovski. From 1985 to 1991, he worked in New York City on documentary and advertising films as a cameraman, film editor, assistant screenplay writer, assistant lighting technician and assistant director. He has also directed many music videos, most notably the music video for the song "Tennessee" by Arrested Development which won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video and the Billboard Music Award for Best Video: New Pop/Rock Act. Rolling Stone magazine listed this video in the list of 100 Best Videos of All Time.
Before The Rain
Before the Rain, a feature film about the circularity of violence in the Balkans, received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1994. Thereafter, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Before the Rain has also been listed in the New York Times' book Best 1000 Movies Ever Made. Since 1994 he collaborated as a director on projects for all seven Hollywood studios. In 1995 the Cinematheque of Bologna organized Mančevski's first retrospective.
Recent projects
Dust, Mančevski's second major feature film, was released in 2001 and starred Joseph Fiennes and David Wenham. In 2002 he directed an episode for the TV series, The Wire, called "Game Day". His third feature film, Shadows, premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.
Personal life
Mančevski currently resides in New York City where he teaches directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (Graduate Film and TV).
Selected filmography (as director)
Feature films
- Before the Rain (1994)
- Dust (2001)
- Shadows (2007)
Television
Music videos
- Leb i sol - "Damar" - (1983)
- Leb i sol - "Wavelength" - (1983)
- Leb i sol - "Aber Dojde, Donke" - (1983)
- Bastion - "Hot Day in Mexico" - (1985)
- Partners in Kryme - "Undercover" - (1990)
- Deskee - "Kid Get Hyped" - (1991)
- Riff - "If You're Serious" - (1991)
- Arrested Development - "Tennessee" - (1992)
- Hardknox - "A Dirty Cop Names Harry" - (1992)
- Main Source - "Fakin' The Funk" - (1992)
- Aurra - "Just A Little Love" - (1992)
- Curtis Stigers - "Never Saw A Miracle" - (1992)
- Black Sheep - "Similak Child" - (1992)
- Sonia Dada - "You Ain't Thinking About Me" - (1992)
- George Lamond - "Baby, I Believe In You" - (1992)
- Arno Hintjens - "Vive Ma Liberte" - (1993)
- Andrew Roachford - "This Generation" - (1994)
- Kiril Džajkovski - "Brothel Tango" - (2001)
- Kiril Džajkovski - "The Dead Are Waiting" - (2001)
- Kiril Džajkovski - "Primitive Science" - (2001)
