Ivo Trajkov

Czech-Macedonian director, producer, editor, screenwriter and dramaturg born in 1965 in Skopje, Macedonia. He graduated in feature film directing from FAMU in 1986-1992. In 1994 he founded The World Circle Foundation. As a producer and dramaturg he has worked there on more than 150 documentaries, including several feature films. He has directed eight feature films to date, in a wide range of genres, produced in five different countries, co-produced by twelve countries. He has received numerous film awards. Since 2004 he has worked as a teacher at FAMU, from 2006 as head of the department. In 2008 he received the title of Honorary Ambassador of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia. In 2015 he co-founded the Film Institute - Film Academy Ohrid, Macedonia, where he is a teacher and head of the department.

Over the years he has worked as a dramaturg, supervisor or consultant on scripts or editing of feature and documentary films of many directors such as Jiří Svoboda, Bohdan Sláma, Saša Gedeon, Olmo Omerzu, Petr Jákl and others from the Czech Republic; Janez Burger, Damjan Kozole, Metod Pevc and others from Slovenia; Eduard Grečner, Ondrej Šulaj, Mira Fornay and others from Slovakia; Igor Zajcev, Nikolay Gejko from Russia; Ali Mosaffa and Kaveh Daneshman from Iran; and many other filmmakers from all over the world. He has worked for multiple film companies from the USA, Germany, Austria, Russia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Macedonia and the Czech Republic.
He is a member of the Film Foundation Committee, tutor at MIDPOINT - Central European Script Center, lecturer/tutor in several "international training programs and  workshops for script and project development" such as MIDPOINT Workshop; Meeting on the Bridge workshop in Turkey, ExOriente Film training program for documentary professionals, DOK.Incubator workshop, Rough Cut Boutique/Sarajevo Film Festival etc.

His last film Piargy was awarded as a winner in 12 out of 16 categories of  Slovak national film awards, The Sun in a Net, 2024.

filmography

Piargy 2022

Honey Night 2015

For Losers Only (Short) 2013

Pariser Platz - Berlin 2011

Ocas jesterky 2009

The Great Water 2004

Minulost 1998

Kanarska spojka 1993

Jan (TV Movie) 1992