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DIMITRIE
OSMANLI,
director
Born in 1927 in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia, the city of the Balkan film pioneer Milton Manaki, who introduced him into the cinema. Graduated in film and theater direction on the Belgrade Dramatic Arts' Academy, and attended post-graduate studies on IDHEC in Paris. He himself is the first Macedonian long feature film director ("Quiet Summer, 1961). His filmography includes the features "Memento" (1967) and "Thirst" (1971), as well as many short-meter films such as the short feature "Puppets Rebellion" (1957), the Skopje earthquake documentaries, "The Twelwe From Papradnik" (winner of a Golden medal on the Belgrade Festival), "The Girls From Mali" and "Quay Of November 13" (both winning Belgrade festival producers prizes).
Has directed plenty of TV features and series for the Skopje, Belgrade and Krakow national TV studios, winning prizes in Portorosz (Slovenia) and Neum (Bosnia and Hertzegovina) broadcasting festivals. He has directed over 80 theater productions of the classical and contemporary repertoire.
As one of the founders, he was ellected professor and the first Dean of the Dramatic Arts' Faculty of the St. Cyrilus and Methodius University Skopje. Though a veteran of Macedonian film making, Dimitrie Osmanli is still vitally active in film , as well in TV and theater directing.
TOMISLAV
OSMANLI,
/screen/play/writer
Tomislav Osmanli (1956) is a distinguished Macedonian author - a play and screenplay writer, a media theoretic, a prose writer and an essayist.
He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Angels of the Dumps (1995) - a movie on the human drama in the East-European post communist environment - and other screenplays as well, among whom there are some for short meter film and TV documentaries.
His screenplay writer's activity began in 1976 with the feature screenplay Men Without Address, when he won the Second prize at the anonymous screenplay competition of the Macedonian national TV. In 1984 his long meter feature screenplay war strory The Stars of the '42 on a similar national competition won the First prize, and took part in the former yugoslav national TV festival in Neum, Bosna-Hercegovina, winning there the director's prize. In 1987 his televizion feature Skopje Dreams, a touching story of the pre-earthquake citty, took part in the same festival and won again the same prize. He published a book with two feature film screenplays named The Skopje Dyptihon in 1991.
Tomislav Osmanli has graduated from the Law faculty in Skopje, and during his studies has begun his screenplay writing and journalist career. Osmanli has written the first Macedonian books dedicated to The theory of the Seventh (The Film and the Politics, 1981) and the Ninth art (Comics - a Scripture of Human Image, 1987), as well of the books: The Missing media (essays on the civil urbanity, 1992), The Butterfly of the Childhood, (short nostalgic stories, 1993) , Listening in a Deaf Time (political essays, 1994), Two in Eden (a play for actors and puppets, 1995) and The New King (1999, children's play on the Nativity).
Writes theater plays, too. In 1987, first the National Theater in Bitola, and in 1990 the National theater in Strumica staged his satirical comedy The Salon Booms. In 1993 the Universal Hall, on the occasion of the 30 years from the catastrophic earthquake in Skopje, staged his multimedia play Memento for a City. In 1996 the National Theater in Kumanovo staged his new play Two in Eden. In the same year he wrote " Glow-worm in the night". In April 1997, the play had it's American premiere at John W.Gainse Theater in Newport News, Virginia, and took part on the Blue Ridge Theater Festival in Richmond, USA. This theater season, "Two in Eden" was staged in Skopje, 1998.
In July 1997 his new play Lightning bugs in the Night was produced and took place in the last issue of Skopje Cultural Summer festival, becoming a theater hit firmly supported by the audience and the critic.
He is an author of a variety of texts published in numerous film and other periodicals in the former Yugoslavia as well as in almost all periodicals and magazines appearing in the Republic of Macedonia. His film critic's activity lasts for more than 17 years.
In 1987, Tomislav Osmanli won the Skopje City Council prize 13 November for his contributions in the field of the screenplay for The Stars of '42 and in the media theory for the book Comics - a Scripture oh Human Image.
In the anonymous competition of the George Soros' Open Society Fond for the multimedia campaign named Together till the Hope, among the 47 other screenplays, in 1993 he won the First prize for his video-project, while a second was not awarded.
Winner of the one-in-five-years prize of the Macedonian arts and sciences' Fund 11 March 1943, for his long story The Photo of Aunt Rashela (1999).
For his journalist activity T.Osmanli won the following public and professional prizes: The NOMSM Platte, the highest prize of the Youth Organization of Macedonia (on December 29-th, 1988) "for special achievements in the field of journalism and publicist work"; won the first time awarded national Prize for (his film) critic activity organized by a national weekly (May 22-nd, 1986). In October 29-th, 1992 he won the Journalist of the Year Prize of the Newspaper Nova Makedonia for his journalist and critic "achievements that had attracted a special interest in the public".
On February 18-th, 1993 he was awarded the highest national journalist prize Krste P. Misirkov for his actual journalist activity.
Today he is a distinguished Macedonian author working as Chief of the Art program in the independent Telma TV.