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The documentary “Manaki” tells the story of the first Balkan cinematographers Janaki and Milton Manaki. The film’s narrative begins in Ionnina, where the Manaki brothers spent their childhood and part of their youth. The story follows the brothers as they open their first professional studio in 1898 and later move to Bitola, now known as the city of the Manaki brothers. Told through original documentary photographs, “Manaki” carries its audience back in time and offers an authentic look into the lives of the two legendary filmmakers.
Robert Jankuloski (1969, Prilep, Macedonia) graduated from the Department of Photography at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje (1996), and received his master's degree at the ESRA Paris-Skopje-New York University in Skopje (2011) at the University of Audiovisual Arts. He is the founder of the Macedonian Center for Photography in Skopje (2000), who has presented rich Macedonian photographic heritage and current production in the country and abroad. He is also dean at the Faculty of Film Art at the University of Audiovisual Arts ESRA Paris-Skopje-New York in Skopje. He is the author of a large number of solo exhibitions and participant at numerous exhibitions in the country and abroad, as well as the curator of the exhibition on Macedonian photographic heritage. Jankuloski is also the director of photography in a large number of feature films, documentaries and short films, and his photographs are also present in more than 50 publications.
Robert Jankuloski
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Robert Jankuloski
Robert Jankuloski
Blaze Dulev
Darko Spasovski
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