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MILCHO MANCHEVSKI

President of the Jury / director, Macedonia

MILCHO MANCHEVSKI

Milco Mancevski wrote and directed the feature films BEFORE THE RAIN (1994), DUST (2001), SHADOWS (2007) and MOTHERS (2011).  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.  DUST was the opening-night film of the Venice Film Festival. Both SHADOWS and MOTHERS were the Macedonian Academy Awards entries, with MOTHERS screening in the Panorama section of Berlinale 2011. Manchevski’s films have screened at more than a hundred festivals, and have been distributed in close to 50 countries (theatrically, TV, cable and video). 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). 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. 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.