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Yanaki and Milton Manaki
Јанаки и Милтон Манаки (in Macedonie) Ιωάννης και ο Μιλτιάδης Μανάκιας (in Greek)
Native name	Јанаки и Милтон Манаки (in Macedonie) Ιωάννης και ο Μιλτιάδης Μανάκιας (in Greek)
Born	1878 (Yanaki) 1882 (Milton) Avdella, Ottoman Empire (present-day Greece)
Dee'd	1960 Thessaloniki, Greece (Yanaki) 1964 Bitola, Yugoslavia* (Milton)
Residence	Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Yugoslavia Kingdom of Bulgaria Yugoslavia* (1945 - death)
Naitionality	Aromanian (Vlach)
Thrift	Filmmakers, photographers
Years active	1905 - 1964
Notes * - in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (present-day Republic of Macedonia)

Yanaki and Milton Manaki were Vlach Macedonian photography and cinema pioneers who gained reputation for bringing the first film camera and creating the first motion pictures on the Balkan Peninsula and the Ottoman Empire. Their work was done in the city of Bitola, a strong economical and cultural center in Ottoman Rumelia. They started their film career with the 60 seconds long documentary film of their grandmother weaving titled Grandmother Despina regarded as the first motion picture shot in the Balkans. The Manaki brothers did their work with a 35 mm Urban Bioscope camera that Yanaki Manaki imported from London.

The two brothers in 1904 moved from their birthplace Avdella to the town Manastir (present-day Bitola). One year after, they open their own atelier for photographic art. After their excellent work is seen by the Balkan public, in 1906 they get an invitation from the king Carol I of Romania to participate in the World Photo Exhibition in Sinaia, Romania, where they won a gold medal for their collection. Later, they become the official photographers of the Ottoman Sultan, and in 1929 to the King of Yugoslavia Alexander Karađorđević. According to the memoirs of Milton Manaki, in 1905, his older brother traveled through several European capitals. In London he bought Bioscope film camera with serial number 300 from the Charles Urban Trade Company. With this camera they shot their 114-year-old grandmother Despina, it was the first film sequences, which marked the birth of the  cinematography of Southeastern Europe. The film was made only 10 years after the shooting of the first Lumière brothers film. Living in a time of transition from the 19th to 20th century, during the Ilinden Uprising, the Balkan Wars and the First World War, the development of Bitola as a consulate and military center of the Ottoman Empire, the brothers Manaki with their films helped to perpetuate these historical events.

Yanaki and Milton recorded a number of films, mostly documentaries that were talking about all aspects of life in the city Bitola. Yanaki and Milton recorded a number of films, mostly documentaries that were talking about all aspects of life in the city of Bitola. Apart from their activity in filmmaking and photography, in 1921 they built an outdoor cinema named  "Manaki", under the open sky on the main street Shirok Sokak. However this temporary solution does not satisfy the two brothers, so they built the first movie theater in Eastern Europe , which began its work on the 1st of December 1923. Unfortunately, this historic building was destroyed in 1939 in a fire.

Today at the National Archives in Macedonia are preserved more than 17.000 photos and over 2000 meters recorded film frоm the brothers Manaki. They left a rich legacy of important documentary value of the historical and cultural development of Eastern Europe. In their honor the Manaki Brothers Film Festival is held every year.