Macedonian film and television editor Dimitar Grbevski is the winner of the “Great Star of Macedonian Film” award for outstanding contribution to Macedonian cinema. The award is traditionally awarded each year by the Macedonian Film Professionals Association.

– This award, established in 2013, was conceived as recognition for a special contribution to the Macedonian film and from the very beginning the criterion was raised so high that it is really not easy to find a real candidate and a worthy laureate. This year, we decided to award it to a professional who left a deep mark in contemporary Macedonian cinema and will quite deservedly bear the epithet “Great Star of Macedonian Film”, MFPA says.

Dimitar Grbevski was born in Veles. He began working as a film editor at Skopje Radio and Television (RTV) in 1965. He graduated from the Film Academy in Zagreb in 1972, and after that in 1975 he started working for Vardar Film. In 1992 he started working as a professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje, at the Department of Film and TV Editing, and in 2011 he retired.

Grbevski as an editorial assistant and editor worked on more than 30 films, TV films and series. In 1981, he won the Award for a long-standing contribution to the Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Festival in Belgrade, and was awarded the Golden Lens Award, which is awarded by the Cinematheque of Macedonia. His rich filmography, among others, contains the following films: “1971: Embryo No. M.” (editor of the first Macedonian animated film), “The Longest Road”, “Stand Up, Delfina”, “Dae” (documentary), “The Red Horse”, “Macedonian Saga”, “Gypsy Magic ” and “The War Is Over”.

Previous winners of the MFPA award are Kiril Cenevski, film director and screenwriter (2013); Milcho Manchevski, film director and screenwriter (2014); Darko Markovic, cartoonist, satirist, film director (2015); Simon Perry, film producer (2016); Vardar Film, production company (2017); Milica Stojanova, actress (2018); Ljupco Konstantinov, composer (2019); Stole Popov, film director and screenwriter (2020), Severcan Bajram, actor (2021), Gorjan Tozija, film producer (2022) and Labina Mitevska, actress and producer (2023).

The award will be presented to Dimitar Grbevski at the 45th edition of the ICFF “Manaki Brothers”, which will be held in Bitola from 21 to 27 September.