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= Pavlina Ltd. = Pavlina Ltd. is a New York-based film company founded in 1986 by Pavlina Proevska, its president and general partner. The co-producing partner of Pavlina Ltd. is FilmsZaNas d.o.o.e.l, a Macedonian film company. Pavlina Ltd. produced its first feature film, The Magic Snowman, in 1987. Featuring the voice of Sir Roger Moore, the film was endorsed by UNICEF, and grossed twenty times its original cost over its 16-year long distribution life. Miramex/ Buena Vista International distributed The Magic Snowman from 1989 to 2006. In 1992, Pavlina Ltd. released its second feature film, Happy Hell Night, a low-budget supernatural thriller. The negative of the film was accepted for permanent curating at the Film Archives of the United States Library of Congress in January of 2023.

Background
Pavlina Proevska is a Macedonian-born filmmaker based in New York City. In 1974, she studied Public Relations at the Institut Privé d’Animation Supérieure in Paris, France. Upon immigrating to the United States, Proevska attended the University of Maryland, receiving a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism.

Proevska began her journalism career in the news department of CBS News in New York. Highlights from her work at CBS include the network’s coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia and the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA, both in 1984. In 1986, she contributed to the CBS News’s coverage of the historic Regan-Gorbachev Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. Proevska has also worked in the promotions department of the USA Cable Networks. She was in Slovenia during the 1993 filming of the thriller Death Train, where she became acquainted with its leading men, Pierce Brosnan and Patrick Stewart.

Pavlina Proevska is fluent in several languages; in addition to her native Macedonian, she also speaks English, French, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian.

Relationship with the Macedonian Arts Council
Pavlina Ltd. has a long and enduring relationship with the Macedonian Arts Council, an organization committed to the promotion and affirmation of Macedonian cultural arts. Proevska founded the Arts Council in 1991, which is registered under the non-profit code of the State of New York. Under the auspices of the Arts Council, she has produced many live events and projects that celebrate Macedonian cultural heritage. As the Arts Council’s Executive Director, Proevska initiated discussion with the City Council of West Dover for the erection of a monument to Macedonian-born Vermont state senator and author, Stoyan Christowe.

In 2022, Proevska wrote, produced and directed My American Pilgrimage, a biographical documentary about Christowe's extraordinary immigrant life, also under the auspices of the Macedonian Arts Council.

Proevska was instrumental in establishing a permanent collection of priceless Macedonian bridal costumes at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA), an institution which boasts the largest assortment of intercultural arts and crafts in the world. The museum value of these items is $800,000 USD. This collection is the second largest compilation of Macedonian embroidered folk dress in the Western Hemisphere.

Induction of Happy Hell Night Into the Library Congress
Happy Hell Night was accepted for permanent curating into the Archives of Moving Images of United States Library of Congress on 23 January, 2023. The film was shot on location in the former Yugoslavia at the start of the Yugoslav Conflict, proving to be a challenging time to film in the Balkans. Starring celebrated actor Darren McGavin and the novice turned Oscar-winning Sam Rockwell, Happy Hell Night was sold around the world by several film distribution companies. Anchor Bay Entertainment released Happy Hell Night on DVD in 3 August, 2004. The legendary Samuel Goldwyn Films purchased the streaming and digital distribution rights to Happy Hell Night in 2022. The film has enjoyed a renaissance in its distribution life with several European broadcasters in recent years. A 4K DVD and Blue Ray distribution release of Happy Hell Night is expected for November 2023.