Years active 1991–present Spouse(s) Sofija Trenchovska | Name Goran Trenchovski Role Writer | |
Occupation Film and theatre director, producer, theorist, publisher | ||
Goran Trenchovski (also spelled as Trenčovski; Macedonian: Горан Тренчовски, b. April 24, 1970 in Strumica) is a Macedonian director, writer, artistic leader, founder, lecturer, humanist... He is the current head of AsterFest and chairman of the Tiberiopolian Film Alliance.
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Biography
Trenchovski graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad with an emphasis in film and theatre directing, in the class of prof. Boro Draskovic. After decay of SFRJ he became the youngest director on the Balkans. He directed numerous film and TV projects in different genres as well as stage performances with a number of plays by both classical and modern auteurs: Chubbies (a serial in 8 episodes), Beggars and Placards (a documentary), Krecho (a docudrama) and Multilevel (a TV feature film). His second TV feature film, Ghoul Quest, acquaints the audience with the fate of an authentic assortment of heroes torn from Balkan iconography, picturesquely sculptured and psychologically represented with all their good and bad sides. He also directed middle-length film projects: Slander, Under, A Step Ahead of Time, Candidates (5 episodes), Martin from the Stairs (6 episodes), I Believe in Macedonia, and The Spirit of my Father. His multi-awarded debut feature film Golden Five is based on true story about unsolved murder of five students in 1951.
He lived and worked for one year in Prague, Czech Republic and attended postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje where he has prepared the thesis “Cinesthetic stories of Solev and Čingo (adapted into films by Rusomir Bogdanovski)”. He directed Sound Imagery, Slavic Orpheus, Infernal Machine, Libretto Wagner, Leonce and Lena, The Spirit of the Can, From the First Breath, Beggar's Opera and Endgame, as well as plays by Aeschylus, Witkacy, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Andreyev, Artaud, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Albee, Adamov and Arrabal. He was engaged as chief of the department for directing in national television MKRTV in Skopje.
Trenchovski also has experience as a producer and publisher. Since its inception in 2005, he is founder and manager of the Int'l film festival AsterFest in his hometown of Strumica. The festival has gained an international reputation, thanks to Trenchovski's networking as well as his involvement with the Tiberiopolian Film Alliance - Institute for shorts & docs. He is also the editor of the anthology of dramaticules Carnival Sighs (1998), the monograph Steps on the Star Planks (1999), special Beckett 100 (2006) and translator of Jiří Menzel's texts Faith and Doubt (2000).
His directions are screened, staged and awarded on festivals in many countries.
Participates at events, symposiums and conferences. Lectures on film, theater and intermediality.
He introduces and promotes the “poetics of (de)tronization”.
Now, he is a doctoral candidate.