Shkëlzen Shala (1925)
Director, screenwriter of chronicle and documentary films.
Born in Tirana on December 25, 1925, where he completed technical high school. Shala worked for some time at Radio Tirana as a radio reporter and later as an editor in the writing of texts at Kinostudio “Shqiperia e re”.
Since 1958, he started shooting his own documentary and documentary films, making about 80 films, of which 60 were documentaries with different themes.
The first documentary film shot by him was “Visit Albania” 1958, while the first documentary films “Me kot e kini” and “Brigada Qemal stafa” – 1959.
Among his most popular films are: “Aleksander Moisiu” – 1960 / “Mountain eagles” – 1962 / “City of Historical Congress” – 1964 /
“Anes Drinit” – 1965 / “Rritje” – 1967 / “In the port of Durres” – 1970 / “Journey with our seas” – 1971 / “Trenistet”– 1972 / “Our copper” – 1975 / “It was once a legend” – 1976 / “Bridges of Kukes” – 1977 / “Albanian flora” – 1977 / “Life by the lake” – 1981 / “Popular clothes” – 1981 etc. .
Other films:
“A day in Apolonia” – 1958 / “Brotherly friendship” – 1959 / “In the footsteps of the centuries” – 1960 / “On the bright road” – 1961 / “The glorious jubilee” – 1961 / “The voice of the people”– 1962 / “Glorious anniversary” – 1952 / “Our village is blooming” – 1963 / “Thousands of years ago” – 1963 / “Permeti ne feste” – 1964 / “One day in the company” – 1964 / “Border post” – 1965 / “Organic waste” – 1965 / “5th Congress of the PPSH” – 1966 / “The first on the road to collectivization” – 1966 / “Son of the Party” – 1967.
“In the partisan footsteps” – 1967 / “December 67” – 1968 / “One day with the drivers of Laci and Pusteci” – 1968″ / “On the roads of light” / “Always together friends” / “Toka te perterira” / “Drini u thye” – 1969 / “Inside the Mao Cen Dun Hydropower Plant” – 1970 / “Light of the Party” – 1970 / “The Way of a Brigade” / “Land and People” / “Let’s Get to Know the Agricultural Land” – 1971/ “Collaborator with Artists” / “The first test” / “Warriors of high yields” / “The 7th Congress of the BPSH – 1972 / “Our Party leads us” / “Among the people” / “Hope for the people” / “Terror for the enemy” / “Chinese artists in our country” / “Friends from heroic Vietnam” – 1973.
“Attacks the enemy with fury (5th Brigade) / “Welcome freedom fighters” – 1974 / “The tractor driver” / “November breeze ” / “Golden Hands” / “Artistic Ensemble of Korce in Kosovo” / “As Much Oil as the Homeland” – 1975 / “Our Capital” / “Creative Thought of Textile Workers” – 1976 / “Man of Work” / “Glory to Marxism – Leninism” / “Bariu i Matit” – 1977 / “With our forces, we are revolutionary” – 1979 / “For life with the Party” / “Karl Gega”.
“Manifestation of strength, health and beauty” / “Valley of the year” / “First of all technical insurance and protection at work” / “Experience of Bucimas” – 1980 / “Minerals and metals for export” – 1981 / “Energy” – 1983.
Shkelzen Shala has also directed the shooting of dozens of newsreels.
First time published: December 2020 on “Kinematografia Shqiptare” on Facebook Page
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Albanian Cinematography since 2013
Reference: “Encyclopedia of Albanian Cinematography” / Toena 2002 / A. T Hoxha / p. 366-367.
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