20/11/2024 - The European Film Awards are set to honour one of the founders of the Macedonian family-run production company Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production

Producer Labina Mitevska (© Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production)

Macedonian producer and actress Labina Mitevska will be awarded with this year’s Eurimages International Co-Production Award by Eurimages and the European Film Academy. Labina Mitevska is one of the founders of the family-run production company Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production based in Skopje, North Macedonia. Labina Mitevska will be an honorary guest of the gala for the 37th European Film Awards on 7 December in Lucerne to receive her award in person.

The jury says: “This prize is awarded to Labina Mitevska as a tribute to the talent of a family business passionately dedicated to European cinema. It rewards the craftmanship of high-quality independent cinema achieved through numerous outstanding international co-productions that are the pride of the Eurimages Fund.”

The siblings Labina, Teona and Vuk successfully launched their company in 2001. Labina is a highly acclaimed actress from the Balkan region, starting her career in Milčo Mančevski’s Before the Rain (1994), awarded with the Golden Lion in Venice and nominated for an Academy Award. At Sisters and Brother Mitevski Labina is managing director and producer, her sister Teona is director and her brother Vuk, a painter and sculptor, is working as set designer and animator.

Labina Mitevska has co-produced films such as her sister's films I Am from Titov Veles [+see also:
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film profile], selected in Berlinale's competition, where it won the Ecumenical Jury Prize, before winning 30 international awards, including the European Parliament's LUX Audience Award; The Happiest Man in the World [+see also:
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film profile] by Pjer Zalica, among others. In 2024 Labina Mitevska is currently working on Dina Duna's Skateboarding Is Not for Girls, developed at Cannes' Cinéfondation, and Mother, her sister’s new film, starring Noomi Rapace.