Mitko Panov
Member since: 01-04-2010
Status: premium user
Country: Switzerland
Profession: director
Favourite genres: thriller / drama / documentary / comedy
Biography
Mitko Panov studied Directing at the Polish National School for Film, TV & Theatre in Lodz. For his films he received a number of international awards among which the Golden Palm for best short film at Cannes 1991. His works were aired on major television networks including : Canal +, France 3, Channel 4, ARTE, ZDF, PBS, ARD/BR, 3 Sat, B-92, Arts & Entertainment etc.
Panov taught directing at the New York University Graduate Film Department, The German State School for Film and TV in Munich (H.F.F. ), the University of Texas at Austin and is a funding member of the New York Film Academy. Over the past decade and a half he has taught a whole new generation of film makers that have gone on to win prestigious festival prizes, six Academy Awards, and has become key players directing both major studio blockbusters and indie hits like Maria Full of Grace, Along Came Polly, Hunger, and La Ciudad to name a few.
Panov’s screen-writing credits include The Miracle Salesman, a Polish-Swedish co-production released in 2009 and Witness ( aka The End of Violence ) a winner of screenplay awards at the European Pitch Point in Hungary, 2007 and the Honorary Kieszlowsky Award at ScripTeast workshop, Cannes 2008. “The excellent script, which successfully combines elements of an entertaining and tense thriller with a profound sense of the political and social consequences of the war in the former Yugoslavia.” Panov also worked as a co-writer of ‘Fault-lines’, a six piece dramatic series for HBO television, developed by Grenada Entertainment.
He is recipient of a number of grants and fellowships including the Sundance Documentary Film Grant, the Rockefeller Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship for distinguished artists and scholars.
Selected Filmography - Producer/Writer/Director:
2008-09 The War is Over – Feature Fiction. Drama about the emigrant experience of a Serbain-Albanian family to Switzerland. To be released in in winter 2010. Screenplay developed through: Netherlands co-production Platform, Utrecht; Cinelink, Sarajevo; Belgrade to Belgrade co-production meeting and Babylon 2007 ( Rotterdam, Cannes ).
1996-2000 Comrades - Feature Documentary (genre: Personal Doc.)
Broadcast:
-Baericher Rundfunk /ARD (Nationwide broadcast through the German Public National Television)
- 3 Sat. Switzerland and Austria. (World TV premiere in January 2001)
-B-92, Serbian TV premiere 2002/03
Selected Film Festivals:
-Cinequest, San Jose, (Festival Premiere)
-SXSW Austin, (Texas Premiere)
-Motovun Film Festival, Croatia (Balkan Premiere) TV
Distribution: Video Databank ( Chicago Art Institute )
1997/98 The Meadow - Short Fiction
Awards:
-Clermont-Ferrand, France 2000. Special Jury Award. (awarded by the CNC)
-Drama, Greece 2000, Best Balkan Film.
TV Broadcast:
-Film4 (Channel 4), France 3, Canal + Poland, 2000, ARTE/ZDF, France & Germany
1993-94 Yield - Creative Documantary,
Awards:
-Ismailia, Egypt, Grand Prix “Aamon Ra” for Best Film
-Egyptian Filmmakers’ Society - Main Award.
1986/87 Bread & Salt - Creative Documentary
Festival Premiere:
-New Film, New Media, Montreal, Canada, 1989
1985- With Raised Hands, Short Fiction
Selected Awards:
-Cannes Film Festival. “Golden Palm”, Best Short Film, 1991.
-Krakow International Short Film Festival, Poland, 1986. “Silver Dragon”
--Tel Aviv International Film Festival. First Prize for best short film, 1986.
Selected Filmography – Screenwriter:
2006-09 Witness ( aka The End of Violence ) Original screenplay. Political thriller. A story about a man-hunt of a witness for The Hague International Tribunal for Crimes against Humanity committed in former Yugoslavia. With co-writer Wladislaw Pasikowski.
2004-05 Miracle Seller. Original screenplay. Drama. A story about two Checzen refugee-siblings and their journey through Europe in the search for their father. Produced by Fabryka, Warsaw. Developed through Media Pus, financed by the Polish Film Fund and Polish TV. Released in fall 2009.
2001-02 Faultlines. Co-writer. A six piece miniseries developed for HBO by Granada Entertainment, LA.
References
Not quite sure what to refer to?
www.kamera300.com
The War is Over, 2009 ( K300 Production) Teaser: http://vimeo.com/10310609
Miracle Seller:
http://www.miracleseller.com
Witness (aka End of Violence ): http://www.scripteast.pl
http://fadein.eu/object.3AC11049-1231-44FA-98F8-4623A0AC2BBF.ivy
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