Milcho Manchevski has written and directed the feature films Before the Rain (nominated for an Academy Award and winner of over 30 film awards, including the Golden Lion for Best Film), Dust, Shadows, and Mothers, and over 50 short forms, including Tennessee for the TV series Arrested Development. He has also been a director on HBO's The Wire. His fiction, essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere Della Sera, Sineast, The Guardian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, and Pravda, among other publications. He has authored a (very small) book of fiction, The Ghost of My Mother, and two books of photographs, Street and Five Drops of Dream, which accompanied two photo exhibitions. Manchevski has lectured at a number of universities, cinematheques, art museums and art institutes, most notably as a Head of Directing Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' graduate Film program.