John Vardar vs the Galaxy
Јон Вардар против Галаксијата
Genre: Animation/Comedy/Sci-Fi
Released: 2024
Running time: 1 hour, 26 mins
Director: Goce Cvetanovski
Screenplay: Goce Cvetanovski
Producer:
Leading roles: Zarko Dimoski, Damjan Cvetanovski, Emilija Micevska
Fairly young and extremely ordinary, John is an out-of-luck mall Santa, who suffers everyday trauma at the hands of overeager holiday shoppers. Fed up, he quits his job, and while pondering the meaning of life almost naked in the snow, he gets kidnapped by his future best friend, the narcissistic megalomaniac robot named Z'ark. Of course, being future friends doesn't mean much, so John ends up in prison with the two worst villains in the galaxy. One thing leads to another, and John finds himself with the most powerful weapon of the universe stuck in his head. Everything he thinks of now becomes reality. This leads to him having the adventure of his life filled with romance, intergalactic ZOOs full of unfriendly aliens, sewer monsters, space whales, black holes, wicked hackers and possibly destruction of all existence. ~Marko Ugarkovikj
Director Information:
Goce Cvetanovski
Goce Cvetanovski is an award-winning director and producer. He studied cinema in Paris, France, where he lived for 17 years. Apart from his film-making activities, he has worked on various commercial projects for clients such as Faith No More, Ed Sheeran, Samsung, and Alcatel.
In 2014 he was co-founder of the comic book publishing company "Komic Brew" based in Scotland, UK.
In 2015, he returned to live and work in Macedonia as creative director of Lynx Animation Studios.
In 2016, he became the first Macedonian author to be mentioned in Rolling Stone magazine as director of Faith No More's music video "Cone of Shame".
In 2017, he started the production of "John Vardar vs the Galaxy", Macedonia's first feature animation and the biggest animation co-production project in the Balkans. The film is now in post-production and scheduled for completion in 2023.
In 2018-2019, Goce directed 15 episodes of "Svetot na Bibi", an animation series that immediately became a national smash hit and the fastest-growing child brand in the Balkans. The series was since then translated into Serbian, Albanian, Turkish, and Swedish. The Youtube channel of the series has over 50M views in 2022.
In 2021, he started collaborating with 351 Studio, where he worked on projects for various music stars, including the animated version of Ed Sheeran's hit "Bad Habits".
