Tomislav Osmanli (1956)
Play and screenplay writer, a media theoretician, a theater and film critic, a
prose writer and an essayist. Osmanli has written the first Macedonian books dedicated to the theory
of the Seventh (Film and Politics, 1981) and the Ninth art (Comics - a
Scripture of Human Image, 1987), as well of the following books: The
Missing Media (essays on civil urbanity, 1992), The Butterfly of
Childhood, (short nostalgic stories, 1993), Violet Lights and Shades (short
stories on solitude, 2001) and Listening in a Deaf Time
(political essays, 1994). His stories have been published in two short story
anthologies "Skopje Stories" (1996) and "A Day in Skopje." He wrote the
screenplay for the feature film
Angels of the Dumps (1995).
His screenplay writer's activity began in 1976 with the feature screenplay
Men Without Address, and continued with his feature-length
screenplay The Stars of '42, (1984),
Skopje Dreams, (1987). Hist theater works include: the satirical comedy The Salon
Booms (1987), the multimedia play
Memento for a City, the chamber play
Two in Eden (1995) that had its American premiere
at John W.Gaines Theater in Newport News, Virginia, and was entered in the Blue
Ridge Theater Festival in Richmond, USA, the play
Fireflies in the Night
(1997), the play Techno Star (2000) and the Christmas
mystery The New King (2001). He is an
author of a variety of texts published in numerous film and other periodicals in
the former Yugoslavia and in Macedonia. His film critic activity has lasted for
more than seventeen years. Won a number of art, professional and public awards. Today he
works sa Chief of the Arts program for the independent Telma
TV.
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