Blerta Basholli

Blerta Basholli (born 1983) is a Kosovar Albanian writer, director and producer. Basholli has previously lived in New York City for a time span of four years, allowing her to work on a number of projects as a student, among those being her short film "Lena and Me" which won awards in a number of international and Kosovo-based festivals. In 2008, she was awarded with the Deans Fellowship at the Film Graduate Program at Tisch School of the Artists, NYU. Most recently, her debut feature film Hive has achieved great success, breaking Sundance Records, and becoming the first Kosovo film to enter the Oscars shortlist nomination.

Personal life Basholli completed her higher education at NYU, New York City, however she is currently based in Prishtina. Hive broke Sundance records, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, the Directing Award, and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Category. Through Hive Basholli has also become the first Kosovan director to make it into the Oscars nomination shortlist, in the Best International Feature category.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Gjakova 726 (co-writer, director) 2008

Other credits Lena dhe Unë (Short) (writer) 2011 Everything Is Broken Up and Dances (co-producer) 2016 The Marriage (first assistant director) 2017 The Return (assistant director) 2017 Unwanted (first assistant director) 2017 Looking for Venera (first assistant director) 2021 Cold November (production manager) 2018