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Kast Hasa
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Kast Hasa was born in the town of Divjaka, Albania. His childhood was all about music. Towards the end of his music school years, It was acting who sparked Kast's interest and became his sole focus. He studied acting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Albania, and In 2000, he moved to Los Angeles to follow his acting career. In 2002, he became a member of SAG (Screen Actors Guild). His acting credits include: Out of Touch, A Father Taken, What I Like About You, Soldier of God, etc. In Los Angeles he also studied film directing. As a Writer/Director, Kast did the short film "Home", a multi-award winning film, including, "Best Albanian Movie" at the Tirana International Film Festival, 2011. Currently, Kast is working on e Feature Film.

 
Robert Aliaj DRAGOT
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Robert Aliaj DRAGOT, Tirane 1960, not only began as a painter, but his painting was also the point of departure for all the other activities he manifested. In the end of 90's, after a long career as a musician, Robert Aliaj DRAGOT nearly stopped with music to come back to his first concern as an art painter. Dragot's work is figurative and makes extensive use of techniques from photography, television and film. Subjects of his paintings range usually from politics in Albania, to the very banal. For a while he abandoned painting completely to make shorts and video's. Now many years later in Brussels, he is focused especially to a multimedial research, experimenting with photography, moving images, animations, sounds and painting itself, without loosing the picturesque quality. His attention divides himself between a critical curiosity of the artistic scene in Europe and a renewed interest for the fast shock therapeutic change, which the Albanian state underwent..

 
Koloreto Cukali
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Graduated for Philosophy in the University of Tirana.  Creator, ExecutiveProducer,  and Writer of the first sitcom ever in Albania, “Radio ‘Radio’”, produced and broadcasted by Digitalb. Writer for television for almost 9 years, working with major producers and hosts of Albania in various TV shows (‘Apartamenti 2XL’, ‘E Diela Shqiptare’, ‘Thuaja Kelit’, ‘T’kam Zemër’, ‘Euro video Grand Prix’, etc). Writer of the “Kult Awards Ceremony” for the last 4 seasons. Writer of the animated short, winning the special prize at TIFF 2009, “100 kafe”, produced By NILOR and ACC. Writer of the short film “24 orëshi i një10 mijë lekshi”, 2008, produced By NILOR and ACC. Writer of the short film that was awarded as Best Film in 2010, for the ‘48 hour film festival’. Host of a radio show for almost 10 years.  Actually working as a freelance journalist, writing a be-weekly column in the “Klan” Magazine and other Newspapers. Previously, writing a weekly column in ‘Shekulli’ Newspaper named “Tarta T’Arta”.

 


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