DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Gentian Gjikopulli

Gentian Gjikopulli, born in Tirana, Albania, in 1974, is a visual artist and an advertising art director. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana in 1996, he begins his career as an artist in the early ‘90s and still going on. His work has been exhibited internationally in private galleries and museums, most of them collective participations and only one solo show. He is the winner of the Public Prize “Spring ‘95” and the third prize award-winning “Onufri 1997”, both national competitions held in the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana. From 1998 still working at the Artistic High School “Jordan Misja” in Tirana as a painting, drawing, and graphics teacher and as an Editing and Design Instructor at the “Harry Fultz” Community College. He is a co-founder of AV-RA Studio, a team that produces TV-Spots and commercial advertising, counting over 100 of them. “Zound” is his first feature film, a project that has gained the financial support of the Albanian National Center of Cinematography and RTSH-Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (National Albanian Radio and Television). He also has written and directed the short version of "Zound," four other shorts, and a backstage feature documentary.