Blerta Basholli
Kosovar director of Hive, the first Kosovo film on the Oscars shortlist.
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- Blerta Basholli is a Kosovar Albanian writer, director and producer based in Prishtina.
- She studied film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she won a Dean's Fellowship in 2008.
- Her first feature, Hive (2021), broke records at Sundance and became the first Kosovo film shortlisted for an Academy Award.
Key facts
- Education
- Graduate film program, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; Dean's Fellowship (2008)1
- Films
- Mirror, Mirror… (2006); Gjakova 726 (2008); Lena and Me (2011); Hive (2021)1
- Based
- Prishtina1
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