The story of Suteren begins not in a boardroom or startup incubator, but in the worn lecture halls of film school, where Ana and Branko sat scribbling notes about dramatic structure and dialogue. They were studying writing for film and theatre, learning how stories breathe, move, and grip an audience. After graduating, they remained close friends, trading notes on each other's film projects as they'd once traded classroom insights.
Then came the phone call that changed everything. A friend of a friend needed a video by next week, if possible. Ana and Branko took on the challenge and delivered something remarkable within an impossible deadline. Word travelled quickly through Skopje. More calls followed, then more still. Their phones wouldn't stop ringing, and suddenly freelancing felt like trying to catch a waterfall in a teacup.
By 2018, Suteren became official: papers filed, entity registered, business cards printed. Suteren began delivering video and photo production to Macedonian clients, climbing steadily upward. The country's leading marketing agencies took notice. Soon, Suteren became their trusted partner for media production, the name that kept appearing in creative briefs.
Years passed. Projects accumulated. Yet something was amiss. Clients would arrive eager for a video and Suteren would deliver brilliantly, but months later they'd return puzzled, unsure what to do with it, who should see it, or why it existed in the first place. Suteren was building beautiful ships for people without maps to navigate the open seas.
Everything shifted in 2024. Ana returned from London, where she'd spent two years at Goldsmiths completing an MA degree in practical filmmaking, specialising in directing fiction. She'd directed actors from around the world, worked with international crews, and absorbed the creative energy of a city at the center of emerging trends. Meanwhile, Branko had been refining his craft, consulting on visual style for major projects, transforming his film directing background from Varna University into something sharper, more contemporary.
When they reconvened in Skopje that year, Suteren transformed completely. No longer simply a production house, Suteren became architects of visual strategy. The new Suteren didn't merely ask what you wanted to film, but what your business needed to say and who needed to hear it. Strategy, story, production, distribution: Suteren would navigate the entire journey.
Today, when someone arrives at Suteren's door with just a vague feeling that they need something, Suteren knows precisely where to begin. Because Suteren has lived in that space between vision and reality since the day two film students first met, pencils in hand, ready to write stories that matter.
Then came the phone call that changed everything. A friend of a friend needed a video by next week, if possible. Ana and Branko took on the challenge and delivered something remarkable within an impossible deadline. Word travelled quickly through Skopje. More calls followed, then more still. Their phones wouldn't stop ringing, and suddenly freelancing felt like trying to catch a waterfall in a teacup.
By 2018, Suteren became official: papers filed, entity registered, business cards printed. Suteren began delivering video and photo production to Macedonian clients, climbing steadily upward. The country's leading marketing agencies took notice. Soon, Suteren became their trusted partner for media production, the name that kept appearing in creative briefs.
Years passed. Projects accumulated. Yet something was amiss. Clients would arrive eager for a video and Suteren would deliver brilliantly, but months later they'd return puzzled, unsure what to do with it, who should see it, or why it existed in the first place. Suteren was building beautiful ships for people without maps to navigate the open seas.
Everything shifted in 2024. Ana returned from London, where she'd spent two years at Goldsmiths completing an MA degree in practical filmmaking, specialising in directing fiction. She'd directed actors from around the world, worked with international crews, and absorbed the creative energy of a city at the center of emerging trends. Meanwhile, Branko had been refining his craft, consulting on visual style for major projects, transforming his film directing background from Varna University into something sharper, more contemporary.
When they reconvened in Skopje that year, Suteren transformed completely. No longer simply a production house, Suteren became architects of visual strategy. The new Suteren didn't merely ask what you wanted to film, but what your business needed to say and who needed to hear it. Strategy, story, production, distribution: Suteren would navigate the entire journey.
Today, when someone arrives at Suteren's door with just a vague feeling that they need something, Suteren knows precisely where to begin. Because Suteren has lived in that space between vision and reality since the day two film students first met, pencils in hand, ready to write stories that matter.