P.O.V. No.15 - With Raised Hands: Data on the film and the director

WITH RAISED HANDS



Production shot from Mitko Panov's With Raised Hands.


Mitko Panov
(Poland, 1985), 5 min., 35 mm, b/w

Principal production credits

Direction and screenplay
Cinematography
Film Editor
Music
Production


Cast
Etel Szyc
Monika Mozer
Jaroslaw Dunaj
Mitko Panov
Jarek Szoda
Halina Szalinska
Janusz Hajdun
PWSFTv&T (National School for Film,
Television and Theater), Lodz, Poland


Festivals and awards include:

Golden Palm for Best Short Film, Cannes Film Festival, 1991.
First Prize for Best Student Film, International Film Festival, Rimini,1987
First Prize, International Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv, 1986
Silver Dragon Award, International Short Film Festival, Krakow, 1986
Main Prize, International Student Film Festival, Munich, 1985
Grand Prix, International Short Film Festival, Monte Casino, 1990
First Prize, International Short Film Festival in Ismailia, Egypt, 1995
The Egyptian Filmmakers' Society's Special Award for Best Film, 1995


Mitko Panov

Born in 1963 in the southernmost state of 'Former Yugoslavia', the Republic of Macedonia. After studying painting at the University of Skopje, he left for Poland to study directing at the internationally acclaimed National School for Film Television and Theater in Lodz. In 1988, he moved to New York City where he taught film directing at the New York University's Graduate Film Department (1992-1995). In1994 he received a nomination for the Pyne Carter Award for Excellence in Teaching. Between 1992 and 1993 he participated in founding the New York Film Academy workshop and designed it's curriculum. Since 1995, he is a guest professor in film directing at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich. In 1998 he moved to Austin where he teaches film production in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at the University of Texas at Austin.



Filmography

1984
1985

1986
1994
1998
Grand Prix. Documentary. 16mm, Color. 15 min.
Szero Rom. Documentary. 35mm, B&W. 6 min.
With Raised Hands. Narrative. 35mm, B&W. 5 min.
Bread and Salt. Creative Documentary. 35mm, Color. 23 min.
Yield. Creative Documentary. 35mm, Color. 15 min.
The Meadow. Narrative. 35mm, Color. 20min.


Television

1984
1985
1989
1993

1994
1995/96
2000
Those Lips, Those Eyes
Tale of Ordinary Madness. TV play
New York Mosaic. Series of documentary reports
Freedom of Expression. Montage film-short for the PBS series
The Declaration of Independence
Mongolia. 9 episodes for TV series Choices
Music Video productions
Comrades. Feature Documentary

Selected stills from With Raised Hands


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