Milčo Mančevski

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Milčo Mančevski (Macedonian: Милчо Манчевски; usually credited as Milcho Manchevski) (born 18 October 1959 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia then part of SFR Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian film director and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his film Pred doždot (Before the Rain), that won a Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994. He is also the director of several music videos, Tennessee by Arrested Development, has received many awards.

Mančevski has directed over 60 film works, most of them associated with the short film aesthetics. He has also directed several commercials and documentary films, and has published several essays, and a book titled My Mother's Spirit.

[edit] Biography

Milčo Mančevski was born 18 October 1959 in Skopje. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje (Department for History of Art and Archeology). Then he left for the United States and in 1983 he graduated from the Faculty for Film and Photography at the Southern Illinois University. In Skopje, he founded the artistic group 1AM, which was active during the 1980s.

From 1985 to 1991 he worked in New York as a cameraman of documentary and advertising films, film editor of documentaries, assistant screenplay writer for industrial videos, assistant light operator and assistant director of videos. In 1992, his video Tennessee by Arrested Development, has received the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video. The Rolling Stone magazine listed this video in the list of 100 Best Videos of All Time.

Pred doždot (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. Later on, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Since 1994 he has collaborated as a director on projects for all seven Hollywood studios. In 1995 the Cinematheque of Bologna organized Mančevski's first retrospective.

Dust, Mančevski's second major feature film, was released in 2001.