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| Nasi Lera was born in 1944 in Korça where he graduated from high school and studied Albanian Language and Literature in the University of Tirana. He is a book writer, screenwriter and translator. He published several volumes of short stories as well as ten novels, many of which were acclaimed with national awards such as the Prize of the Albanian Republic. Some of his best known titles include: Living Life (1984), Premiere night (1989), Ballad of myself (1990), Dictator's Revival (1992) as well as a short story collection Silent Roar (1996). Nasi Lera translated works some of the most recognized writers of the 20th century, such as Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing as well as seven novels of the Nobel Prize-winner, Joze Saramago. He was the screenwriter for the film Love Your Name (Ibrahim Muça, Kristaq Mitro 1894) and Looking Into Your Eyes (Mevlan Shanaj 1986).
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| After her studies in Paris and Denmark, Katia deVidas never stopped working and developed her skills as director, editor and camera-person in diverse projects, numerous music documentaries (“Iggy Pop and the Stooges”, "Drew’s Birthday”, “Backstage with Gossip”, “The Burning Bush”...) and a film around the Dvorak Cello Concerto with an International Youth Orchestra. She works closely since many years with Jan Harlan. She filmed and edited “O Lucky Malcolm”, a film about the British actor Malcolm McDowell for Warner Bros and directed a short film selected for the Berlin Film Festival in 2003 “Le passage”. She worked on numerous French films (“Le courage d’aimer”, “The village of shadows”...) and for French Television and Canal+. At this time she films and directs her first feature documentary-Fiction with and about the British singer Peter Doherty. |
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| Film Director, Theater Director, Actor and Script Writer. Jiri Menzel is one of the most well known Czech film and theater directors, as well as an actor and script writer. Born in Prague (23.02.1938), he majored in directing at the Prague Film School FAMU (1958 - 1962) at a time which gave birth to a whole generation of film makers who came to be called the Czech New Wave. He began his professional career at Kratky Film Prague as assistant director to Věra Chytilova, but since his script debut based on Bohumil Hrabal's tales he has worked predominantly at the Barrandov Film Studios. As stage director he was mostly involved with the Drama Club, Prague (but also other Prague theatres - the Theatre on the Balustrade, the National Theatre, etc.) and also directed plays at theatres in Bochum, Zurich, Basle, Paris (Comédie Française), Berlin, Zagreb, Dubrovnik and at numerous other European theatres. His acting parts were created in collaboration with Czech film directors as well as Costa Gavras and the Hungarian directors of the 1970‘s. Menzel's film roles are uniquely characteristic for the omnipresent duality of the tragic and comic, gravity and farce and also for his special poetic view of the world. From January 2000 till April 2003, he was an artistic director of the Prague theatre Divadlo na Vinohradech. Jiri Menzel has been honored with lifetime achivement awards in numerous international film Festivals all over the world. Menzel’s 1966 film, Closely Watched Trains won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film His film I Served the King of England 2006 is the most awarded of his works. Awards include the FIPRESCI prize in the Berlinale 2007, Golden Gladiator award at International Film Summerfest of Durres 2008 and many other national and international awards. |
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