Teona Strugar Mitevska is bringing the “actual” Mom Teresa to the display screen. Her subsequent movie will likely be “a narrative depicting 5 days within the lifetime of a 44-year-old formidable girl, simply in the intervening time when she is to go away St. Mary’s convent and create her personal spiritual order,” Mitevska instructed Display Day by day. “Mom” is “not a biopic” of Mom Teresa however reasonably “a movie about the true individual, the lady behind the parable,” the director stated.
Mitevska’s sister, Labina Mitevska, will produce by way of their Sisters and Brother Mitevski Manufacturing banner. “Mom” relies on the sisters’ 2013 TV collection “Teresa and I.”
The mission is presently searching for companions on the Berlinale Co-Manufacturing Market.
Born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910, Saint Teresa based the Missionaries of Charity, which offers medical and social providers to these in want, though her clinics acquired criticism for his or her poor situations. She acquired the Nobel Peace Prize and Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize. Saint Teresa died in 1997 and was canonized in 2016.
Teona Strugar Mitevska’s most up-to-date movie, “God Exists, Her Title Is Petrunya,” received the Ecumenical Jury and Guild Movie awards on the 2019 Berlinale. She has additionally directed options “How I Killed a Saint,” “I Am from Titov Veles,” “The Girl Who Brushed Off Her Tears,” and “When the Day Had No Title.” Labina Mitevska has produced and acted in all of those titles.
The sisters at the moment are in post-production on the anti-war movie “The Happiest Man In The World.” Teona Strugar Mitevska directed the pic and wrote it alongside Elma Tataragic.