Blerta Basholli

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1983-01-01 (41 years old)

Place of Birth Pristina, Kosovo

Blerta Basholli

Biography

Blerta Basholli is a writer/director with a unique realistic visual style. Her stories touch upon social and gender issues from the country where she was born and raised, Kosova, and beyond. Basholli's debut feature film Hive (2021), broke Sundance records where she swept the Grand Jury Prize, the Directing Award, and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic category, becoming the first film in the history of the Sundance Film Festival to do so. In 2008 she was awarded the Dean's Fellowship at the Film Graduate Program at Tisch School of the Arts - NYU. She lived in New York City for four years where she had the opportunity to work on several film projects as a student.

Known For

Director

2021
Hive

as Director

2011
Lena & I

as Director

2009
Gjakova 726

as Director

Writer

2021
Hive

as Writer

2011
Lena & I

as Writer

2009
Gjakova 726

as Writer

Producer

2021
Hive

as Casting Director

Editor

2011
Lena & I

as Editor