The director of ICFF ‘Manaki Brothers’, Simeon Moni Damevski, announced the winner of the Special Golden Camera 300 for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinematic Art at the 44th edition of the festival to be fled from 23rd to 29th of September.

The cinematographer whose signature work includes films produced in his long-lasting cooperation with the director Joe Wright (‘Atonement’, ‘Anna Karenina’, ‘Cyrano’); ‘Nocturnal Animals’ (directed by Tom Ford); ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ (directed by Lynne Ramsay); ‘World Trade Center’ (directed by Oliver Stone); ‘The Hours’ (directed by Stephen Daldry); ‘High Fidelity’ (directed by Stephen Frears); ‘Butterfly Kiss’ (directed by Michael Winterbottom); as well as the episode ‘Nosedive’ from the Black Mirror series that won him an EMI and a BAFTA nomination for best photography (cinematography), will this year in Bitola become a member of the great film family of the Festival as the laureate of the Special Golden Camera 300 for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinematic Art.

Seamus McGarvey has two Oscar nomination for best photography (cinematography) – for ‘Atonement’ (2007), and for ‘Anna Karenina’ (2012). He has won the BSC award twice, for ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘Nocturnal Animals’ (Tom Ford) and was a BAFTA award nominee four times. In 2004, the British Royal Photographic Society awarded him the Lumière Medal for Major Achievement in British Cinematography.