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Tamara Kotevska ( mk, Тамара Котевска; born 9 August 1993) is a Macedonian filmmaker best known for her 2019 documentary ''
Honeyland ''Honeyland'' ( mk, Медена земја, transliterated: ''Medena zemja'') is a 2019 Macedonian documentary film that was directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. It portrays the life of Hatidže Muratova, a loner beekeeper of ...
''.


Early life

Kotevska was born in
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(now
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). She earned a scholarship to study abroad in
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for her junior year in high school. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius University in
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, with an emphasis in documentary film.


Career

Together with Ljubomir Stefanov, Kotevska spent three years in Bekirlija, North Macedonia filming the documentary about a female wild beekeeper, Hatidze. The film was originally going to be a documentary short about the
Bregalnica Bregalnica (, ) is the second largest river in North Macedonia. It starts as a spring near the mountain city of Berovo and it passes near the cities of Makedonska Kamenica, Kočani, Vinica and Štip, before joining the river Vardar on its way ...
river region when they came across the beekeeper. Kotevska and Stefanov previously worked together on another documentary, ''Lake of Apples'' (2017). ''Honeyland'' won three awards at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and received two nominations at the
92nd Academy Awards The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p ...
: Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film. It is the second Macedonian film to earn an Oscar nomination after '' Before the Rain'' (1994).


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* 1993 births Living people People from Prilep Macedonian documentary filmmakers Macedonian film directors Women documentary filmmakers Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje alumni Sundance Film Festival award winners {{NorthMacedonia-bio-stub