Ismail Balla, music composer and editing director!

The staff behind the cameras!
Ismail Balla
Music composer and editing director at Kinostudio “Shqiperia e re”!
Holds the title “Merited Artist”

Born in Tirana on January 14, 1931. Worked at Kinostudio and TVSH.
Balla finished high school, on November 16, 1952, and started working at the Kinostudio “Shqiperia e Re”.

After working for several years in the formulation of music and effects for many newsreels, documentary films and documentaries (because at that time all film music was formulated), he was sent to Prague where he further specialized in his profession.

From 1961, directed the recordings of the music composed for feature films and collaborated with the sound operators in the formulation and final recording of the sounds and effects of the entire soundtrack.

The first film was “Debatik” (1961). In parallel with documentaries and chronicle films, he also worked with feature films such as: “The Commissar of Light” (1966), “Silent Duel” (1967), “Open Horizons” and “Estrada ne ekran” (1968), and especially with the film “Oshetime ne bregdet” (1969), a film which was made complete with music formulated and not composed by apostates.

Balla is also a composer of music for several documentaries, among which we can mention “Meeting in Jakarta” (1964); “Our Theater” (1964), “On side of Drini” etc.

From the year 1970, he worked as an editing director in the films
“The Bronze Bust” and “The Fitter Girl” (1970).

At the beginning of the 70s, Balla worked as a music composer in Albanian Television, which had just begun to operate, and from the great experience he had gained in cinematography, also took on the editing of various television films, becoming the first director of montage on Television.

Thus, in this Institution, he worked as an editing director in the films “Korrieret” (1976), “Plumba perandorit” with 2 series (1980), “Agimet e stines se madhe” with 5 series (1981), “Shoke te një skuadre” etc..

Both in Kinostudio and TVSH, he helped in the preparation of a considerable number of frames in his profile.

For the quality level in the musical formulation and editing of the films, Balla was awarded the title of honor “Merited Artist”! 

NOTE: We don’t have any further information since 2002. Anyway, the aim of this page is not to overlook and leave in oblivion any name of our artists as far as we have the opportunity to remember them, always based on an accumulated information. If anyone has relevant information and wants to join our cause, helping us in this direction, it will be most welcome and many heartfelt thanks.

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