Georgi M. Unkovski was born in New York City, in 1988, after which he spent most of his youth in Macedonia, Europe. At the age of 22, he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology, at the Eastman’s School of Photography, in the field of the Fine Arts (Rochester, NY). During his college years, he published a photography book, titled “Be Right Back”, pertaining to the lifestyle of gamer youth in Skopje, Macedonia, and the social phenomenon of the group plying in Internet cafés. Shortly after his graduation, he moved to the Czech Republic, to pursue his passion in film making, and enrolled in the post-graduate program at internationally renowned university of “FAMU” – Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. During this period, he shot more than 10 student films, and assisted in many different forms on countless others, learning about the filmmaking process from all angles. After shooting his thesis film and a short comedy film, funded by the Macedonian Film Fund, he graduated from FAMU, in 2015, with a Masters’ thesis titled “The Immersive World of Video Games and the Gaming Concepts in The Future of Cinema”. The thesis discussed the possibilities behind the thinning live between video games and cinema, as well as understanding that one will not replace the other. Since his postgraduate studies, Georgi has lived in Skopje, and works as a full-time director on one of the currently most popular TV shows in Macedonia, called “Yesterday’s News”/ “Fcerasni Novosti”, occasionally doing ad work and always interested in the future of VR and the possibilities of the medium.
