S.M - For me
personally, 2024 was quite successful on a private and professional level. What
I set out to do I accomplished, although there were many obstacles and
setbacks, but still when you promise yourself something, you will go through
everything and through everything to reach your goal, to succeed you need a lot
of struggle and a strong motive and for all of that and success is inevitable. The
fact that 2024 was very successful is the many awards that I received together
with the team because I am a team player and a fast team is not the first basic
rule. I received an award from Canada from MNI, which is a special association
and agency that takes care of the affirmation and distribution of films all
over the world and their promotion, which I am especially proud of. I received
a gold plaque from Finland, Sweden and many places around Europe and the world
with which we have great collaborations.
MT – You usually receive awards for your films, is there anything new in that field?
S.M - Also,
regarding films, we have experienced great success with our films Sadness,
Beautiful Country, Mystery, which are still competing at film festivals around
the world and are achieving great success thanks to Beograd Film and Deja
Raičević, who take care of our promotion all over the world.
MT – How do your projects usually come to fruition, what is needed?
SM - To make a
documentary requires a lot of money, and that is a taboo subject in Macedonia,
and we are forced to ask the world for their funds. So far, we have been doing
well, but I hope that will continue to be the case in the future. I somehow
found myself in the filming of documentaries, perhaps because of those stories
that are sometimes touching and sad, sometimes have a happy ending, but they
are true human destinies, and so in that way we should help these people to be
unique and in solidarity and to help each other. Here I must mention the team I
work with, which are: Bube, editor, director, Joco Svetlo, master set designer,
Zorana, set designer, editor, Sashe, Zoki, Milcho, Atska, cameramen, Petar,
Mosho Tonci and the rest. Without these guys, we cannot move, they are the best
in what they do. And of course, I must mention who helps us, that is Michael
from Chicago, my brother-in-law Goran from New York, Deki from Melbourne,
Johnny from Canada and many others, and here I should mention Valentina Angelova,
Sashe, Tanja, Jovana, Maria, from whom I have received immense help. Maybe
filming documentaries is an outlet for me through which I receive positive
energy and through which I reject negative energy. Filming documentaries is
very interesting, constant communication with people, but when you start
working, you need to pay a lot of attention and put in 100 percent
concentration. Otherwise, for your esteemed time line, for the first time I
will reveal to you that we should work on a beautiful film with Kusturica and a
very famous Chinese director who should soon arrive in Macedonia. We have many
negotiations to work on some films with some famous Serbian directors, but I
would not reveal much.
MT – How are
things going with the show Faces and Deeds?
SM - As for the show Faces and Deeds, it has been going on for 13 years and is on TV Sonce, we always surprise and this season if you follow us there will be many surprises with many guests, with many topics from everyday life. Every Saturday at 9 pm on TV Sonce. The team that works on Faces and Deeds is highly professional and always knows how to make the show very watched. Of course, Faces and Deeds and 2024 have many awards and we hope for 2025 as well and we continue with a lot of work and effort and many collaborations with the Macedonian diaspora, and the world. So we continue with many collaborations with many in Macedonia and the diaspora.
MT- Your further plans and messages to the readers of MT?
SM - A lot of
work awaits us this year, we hope that we will successfully complete all those
projects and we hope for success. This year we hope for success at the film
festivals in which we participate all over the world. We also have some
unfinished projects with Serbia, Montenegro and Vojvodina, we hope that we will
complete them this year and I hope for great successes in our collaborations
with the diaspora. Our dream is the Grammy Oscar for Popularity, which we have
been working on for 3 years and we hope that this year will finally happen.
That is our lifelong dream, I hope that 2025 will come true for us, which we
will be especially proud of. We already have a film that we are working on and
we think that it will be a winning combination for going to the Grammys,
although the competition is great, but according to the topic that we have been
chosen and the script in general, we believe that as a team we will be able to
be part of that glamorous scene. In conclusion, I will say the following: love yourself,
respect yourself, life is short and therefore you should live with beautiful
things, lots of love and positivity. energy, joy, happiness and everything that
makes you and your family happy, which is the pillar of the family. Enough with
the behind-the-scenes games of malice, jealousy, materialism, you need to lend
a hand to each other and help unite all Macedonians around the world. The path
is thorny and long, you must overcome all obstacles and barriers to success,
and success is achieving the goal, and the goal is life.
МТ – Thank you so much for the time and giving us an overview of the past year and your plans in the future. We wish you a very Happy New 2025, success in everything you do.
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