Kujtim Çashku is a Director and Writer Albanais born on 5 august 1950 at Tirana (Albanie)
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Kujtim Çashku (born 5 August 1950) is an Albanian film director and screenwriter who has won numerous awards at international film festivals, including the Critics Prize at the 1996 Bastia Mediterranean Film Festival and the UNESCO Award at the 1998 Venice Film Festival for Colonel Bunker, the Best Screenplay Award, the FIRESCI Prize and the Silver Pyramid at the 2005 Cairo International Film Festival as well as the Bronze Palm at the Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema for The Magic Eye, and the CEI Award at the Trieste Film Festival for his "brave commitment to the development of Albanian cinema". He is the founder and director of Tirana's Marubi Film & Multimedia School, the first film university in Albania, as well as the supervisor of OraFilm, Albania's first film production company, and founder-organizer of Albania's first Human Rights Film Festival (IHRFFA). Biography
Il s'est formé à l'Institut des arts de Tirana et à l'IATC (Institute of Theater and Cinematography Art) de Bucarest.
Il est membre de l'Académie européenne du film, Président de l'Association des cinéastes albanais « Lumiere », également PDG de OraFilm, une maison de production ayant réalisé la première coproduction entre l'Albanie et l'Occident : Kolonel Bunker, 1996, Albanie (OraFilm)/France (3B Productions)/Pologne (Studio Filmowe Dom).
Membre fondateur de l'Association des cinéastes albanais « Lumiere », Kujtim Çashku dirige aujourd'hui la première et la seule école de cinéma et de télévision de Tirana, l'Académie du film et du multimédia Marubi dont il est également le concepteur et fondateur.
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