Kiril Cenevski


Kiril Cenevski was a Macedonian film director.

Education and career

Cenevski studied at the Architecture and Civil Engineering in Skopje. He began his career as an assistant director on television productions and documentaries in the late '60s. Cenevski made his feature-film debut as a director with Upho Ceme/Spawn of the Devil in 1971. Though his subsequent filmography is sparse, Cenevski was active in theater and television. At one time, Cenevski chaired the Union of Macedonian Film Workers. One of the highpoints of his career was his "Golden Lens" award in 2013, which Cinematheque of Macedonia awarded for outstanding contribution to the Macedonian cinematography.

Filmography

His most notable feature film was Black Seed for which he won the Golden Arena for Best Director at the 1971 Pula Film Festival. The film was also entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. Cenevski's filmography consisted of the following:
1970 : The cost of the city
1971 : Black Seed
1975 : Yad 1975 : Leopold Sedar Senghor
1976 : Fazil Hysni Daglardzha
1976 : Eugenio Montale
1978 : Dzhafra
1979 : Rafael Alberti
1979 : Eugene Gilvik
1980 : Lead Brigade
1982 : Bridges - Struga Poetry Evenings
1984 : Huaskaran - Andy '82
1985 : Node

Awards

Cenevski received the following awards:
1971 FYFF Pula, Golden Arena for directing / "Black Seed"
1971 FYFF Pula, gold crown for best debut director / "Black Seed"
1971 IFF Moscow Award "Phoenix" for best debut director / "Black Seed"
1972 IFF Avellino, Laceno D'Oro Award for directing / "Black Seed"
1972 Oscar nominee Yugoslavian 72 / "Black Seed"
1972 Award for October 11 "Black Seed"
1976 Karlovy Vary IFF, Special Award for the film / "Yad"
1980 FYFF Pula, Prize "Prvomajska" the film with modern themes / "Lead Brigade"
1980 Award of miners in the film Rasha / "Lead Brigade"
1980 Silver Medal of CIDALC / "Lead Brigade"
Movies: 1987 Hemteks, directing, documentary, film Vardar