Vuk Mitevski graduated from Bennington College, USA, specializing in sculpture, painting and set design. He lived in New York where he had solo exhibition of his monumental paintings SAINTS. He returned to Macedonia to work as set designer on HOW I KILLED A SAINT and I AM FROM TITOV VELES by Teona Strugar Mitevska. His participation at the Bienale of the Young artists from Europe and Mediterranean 2005 was awarded by the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Neapol and one of his works is included in their
collection. His last animation project ANGEL was screened at Locarno Film
Festival 2008 and Sarajevo Film Festival. The animation films are his
great challenge and he currently prepares the short animated film ALERIK.
Simultaneously Mitevski is preparing a solo exhibition for the Macedonian
National Gallery scheduled for March next year .

 

www.vukmitevski.com

Teona Strugar Mitevska was born in 1974 in an artistic family in Skopje, Macedonia. She started her engagement with the camera as a child actor. Later she trained as a painter, continuing and finishing her BA in graphic design.

After a successful career in advertising she turned to filmmaking, she studied film in the M.F.A program at the Tisch School of Arts, New York University.

She made her debut as short film director in 2001 with VETA, which received Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival.
HOW I KILLED A SAINT is her first feature film, which was made under the auspices of the company she established together with her brother and sister. The film premiered at the 2004 Rotterdam Film Festival- Tiger Competition and it was awarded the Best European Film at the Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, Austria.
I AM FROM TITOV VELES, her second feature film premiered at at the 2008 Berlin film Festival- Official Panorama Competition and Cannes Film Festival – Acid Selection also at Sarajevo Film Festival, Toronto Film festival-Discovery Section. The film has received more then international awards, such as: Heart of Sarajevo- Special Jury Award at 2007 Sarajevo Film Festival; Best European Actor/ Special Jury Award – Lecce Film Festival of European Film; Special Jury Mention–Cinema Jove, Valencia
International Film Festival; and Grand Prix Prize-Blue Angel at the Art Film International Film Festival, Slovakia among others. Iam from Titov Veles is a Macedonian candidate for Oscar.

“We come from a family of revolutionaries, going few centuries back. For years I was reluctant of this violent background, mostly because I did not know how to translate it in the perspective of today’s world. Today I know: We change our ancestor’s guns with a camera, and all is invested for the creation of a more equal world”. Teona was writing her own scripts for all her films and in the moment she
has finished the scipt for her bother new animation project Alerik. MARKET is Teona’s newest cinema project.
She lives in Paris, France.

 

 

 

 

 

She started her acting career in 1993 playing Zamira in Milcho Mancevski's Golden Lion award winning BEFORE THE RAIN. After that she resumed her studies.

In 1996 she entered into a successful collaboration with Michael Winterbottom. Following WELCOME TO SARAJEVO they worked together in I WANT YOU. For these accomplishments she was chosen as one of the Shooting Stars at the Berlinale in 1998. Her latest acting credits include the Czech film LONERS by David Ondrichek, and the German film "Weg" by Michael Bauman.

In 2003 she acted in three films: Vlado Cvetanovski's SECRET BOOK, Giancarlo Bocchi's NEMA PROBLEMA and Teona Mitevska's HOW I KILLED A SAINT.

In 2004 she acted in Anja Glogovac’d L for Love, Sergej Stanojkovski’s KONTAKT a German-Macedonian coproduction .In 2005 she acted in Germany in the new film of Christian Wagner
WARCHILD, and 2006 she played main role of Afrodita in her sister new film I am from Titov Veles.
In 1998 she became a member of the European Film Academy, and in the following years she was a member of the jury in Cottbus, Edinburgh,
Karlovy Vary ,Drezden film festivals, Finale Plzen, Palic International Film Festival, Moscow Film Festival or Mannheim International Film Festival.

 

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