Today at Manaki Cinema director and producer Ivo Trajkov held a workshop about the making of Film. This is a road movie in which Trajkov drives a car while making videos of himself, or more precisely, he is both the actor and the director of this piece.

“I would like to tell my younger colleagues, filmmakers who say they have brilliant ideas, but have no budget to implement them – borrow a camera, start shooting, you do not need money. I made this screening to prove that it is possible to make a film without a budget. I only had this car. I had a small team because there was not a lot of room in the car for other people. I acted and directed. I had the idea, the freedom in the making of this road film. The idea was to show that wherever you go, you cannot escape yourself. Film is larger than life”, Trajkov told the audience in Manaki Cinema.

Ivo Trajkov is a director, producer, editor, screenwriter and playwright born in 1965 in Skopje, Macedonia. He graduated from FAMU as feature film director in the 1986-1992 period. In 1994 he founded the World Circle Foundation. As a producer and screenwriter, he worked on more than 150 documentary films there, as well as several feature films.

He has directed eight feature films in various genres, produced in five different countries and coproduced by 12 countries.
He has won numerous film awards. Since 2004 he has been a professor at FAMU, while since 2006 as head of department. In 2008 he was awarded the title of Honorary Cultural Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia. In 2015 he co-founded the Film Institute – Film Academy Ohrid, Macedonia, where he is a professor and head of department.