Goran Trenchovski


Goran Trenchovski is a Macedonian-born director, writer, artistic leader, founder, lecturer, humanist. He is the current head of AsterFest, and lives in Great Britain and in Macedonia.

Biography

Born on Good Friday. As a child he has published poems and has loved reading and collecting comic books. As a young adult he began making photographs.
Trenchovski graduated from the in Novi Sad with an emphasis in film and theatre directing, in the class of acclaimed prof. Boro Drašković. After decay of SFRJ he became the youngest director on the Balkans known for directing projects on a range of subjects. He directed numerous film and TV projects in different genres as well as stage performances with a number of plays by both classical and modern auteurs. Among the short film subjects he has directed, and . His second TV fiction movie, acquaints the audience with the fate of an authentic assortment of heroes torn from Balkan iconography, picturesquely sculptured and psychologically represented with all their good and bad sides. He also directed middle-length film projects,, and, series, Candidates, Martin from the Stairs, Love and Betrayal, and documentaries I Believe in Macedonia and The Spirit of my Father. His multi-awarded cinematic feature film is based on true story about unsolved murder of five students in 1951. This film is reviewed by British critics as "a profound and moving film" and as "a mystery thriller of chilling proportions", under "crafty direction encourages us to think".
He lived and researched for one year in Prague, Czech Republic and attended postgraduate studies at the in Skopje where he has prepared the master thesis “Cinesthetic stories of Solev and Čingo ” and completed doctoral studies in the field of literature and film. He defended the doctoral thesis “Intermedial verifications of the novels ‘The Red Horse’ by Tashko Georgievski and ‘The Gentle Barbarian’ by Bohumil Hrabal”.
He directed Sound Imagery, Slavic Orpheus,,, Leonce and Lena,,, Beggar's Opera and Endgame, as well as plays by Aeschylus, Witkacy, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Andreyev, Havel, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Albee, Adamov and Arrabal. He was engaged as chief of the department for directing in MTV in Skopje. He was a selector at the IX and X edition of the when he paid tribute to Risto Šiškov's film decalogue. He was professor in the University of Audiovisual Arts - European Film Academy, EFTA Skopje-Paris-Essen-Rotterdam. He also established short-lived Seraphin Tanz group and Academic Theatre Laboratory in the spirit of Artaud, Barba, Grotowski, Kantor and Brook investigations.
Trenchovski also has experience as a producer and publisher. He was editor-in-chief of the magazine and editor of the Shine magazine. Since its inception in 2005, he is founder and artistic director at the International Film Festival dedicated to auteur-directed short film subject. The festival has gained an international reputation, thanks to Trenchovski's networking as well as his involvement with the Tiberiopolian Film Alliance. He has eight books related to the performing arts, cinema and autopoetics written in Macedonian, and a collection of writings in English. He is also editor of the anthology of dramaticules Carnival Sighs, the monograph Steps on the Star Planks, the special Beckett 100, the reader and translator of the Jiří Menzel's texts Faith ''and Doubt''. He has also directed radio dramas and .
His directions are screened, staged and awarded on festivals in many European countries, as well as in UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Russia, India, Turkey.
He is a member of the European Film Academy and British Comparative Literature Association.
Participates at events, workshops, symposiums and conferences. Lectures on cinema, drama and intermediality.
He introduces and promotes his “Poetics of Thronization”.

Awards and recognitions (a choice)

  • "Grand Prix: Golden plaque for best directing" - Republic Festival for Young Adults - Štip, 1988.
  • "Vojdan Černodrinski Auteur's Award" - Macedonian Theatre Festival - Prilep, 1992.
  • , Sarajevo Film Festival, 2000.
  • "DetectiveFest: Law and society", Best production, best anti-hero role - Nomination for best film - Moscow, 2005.
  • "Award for Artistic Stage Expression" - International festival of Antique Drama - Stobi, 2006.
  • "Best Poetic Documentary" -, Festiwal Filmów Ekologicznych - Nowogard, 2006.
  • "Sv. 15 Tiveriopolski sveštenomačenici", Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film and Theatre - Strumica, 2007.
  • Finalist, Best short documentary - Nomination - Washington, D.C., 2008.
  • "Script Fest", Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film - Skopje, 2013.
  • "Golden Griffon", Best Foreign Film - - Perugia, 2017.
  • "Best Film in South-East Europe",, 2017.
  • "Best Balkan Spirit", Balkan Film Food Festival - Pogradec, 2017.
  • "Best Foreign Film", Jagran Film Festival - New Delhi / Mumbai, 2017.
  • "Grand Prize Winner: Best Feature Film", New Jersey Film Festival - USA, 2017.
  • "Best Foreign Language Feature Film", - UK, 2018.

Literature

  • Stefanović, Zoran., a speech on the occasion of 20 years work anniversary of G. Trenchovski, Strumica, Macedonia 4. 12. 2011.
  • Stefanović, Zoran., foreword for book Kino neimar by G. Trenchovski, 14. 1. 2012.
  • , interview for magazine New Jersey Stage about American premiere of Golden Five by G. Trenchovski, 9. 19. 2017.
  • Murray, John., review of the Golden Five by G. Trenchovski, 21. 2. 2020.
  • Trenchovska, Sofija., materials from the scientific symposium on the Golden Five by G. Trenchovski, 2018.
  • Velev, Ilija., a speech on the film evening of G. Trenchovski, Akt, No. 58/XII, 29. 1. 2016, 26-27.