Vera Grabocka – Flloko Director, producer of many Albanian television programs. Her artistic activity took off in the 90s. She was born in Tirana on March 21, 1951. She graduated from the High Institute of Arts in the department of drama in 1971. While still a student, the well-known director Muharrem Fejzo cast her as an actress in the film "Montatorja" (1970) in the role of Ana's friend, who to become a fitter!
The photos below are taken from the movie "Montatorja"
Then he started working at the Albanian Radio and Television in the department of artistic programs and shows. In addition to working for the organization of television shows, she also filmed theater performances as a director. In the 90s, the production of the show "12 dances in Hollywood" will make her known as a director of shows. Then she brought to the public a series of festivals and competitions, which also gave her the approval of the audience. The experience gained in VAT and her outstanding skills in the organization of mass and entertaining spectacles, made her take the first initiative as a director and producer of the well-known annual spectacle "Miss Albania", which will later be organized in 1992. together with A. Gjebrean. 
In 1997, she immigrated with her family to the USA and stayed there until 1999. In Los Angeles television programs, she took part as a director of the well-known spectacle "Miss Globe" in 1999, as well as in several other spectacles of this kind. the city. After returning to his homeland, he organized several large-scale shows, in cooperation with several television stations that were open at that time. One of the other shows that left an impression on the audience was "World Folk" in 1999, as well as "I love Albania more", with prominent Albanian artists inside and outside the country. It will bring to Albania formats known in the world in terms of discovering new talents, and not only such as "X Factor Albania", "Dance With Me", "Your Face Sounds Familiar", etc. In her shows, the quality, the organizing ability of the large masses of participants in open performances, the rich directorial fantasy, the pleasant discoveries and surprises, the visuality of the movement, the aesthetically beautiful mise-en-scene, the feeling for the "fusion" of the stage with the hall stand out. , rhythm and dynamics, emotional and entertaining effects. 
CRITICAL VOICES From A. Ceko, R. Makashi and others to the composers A. Doci and D. Ziu…… Mrs. V. Grabocka is an artistic person with a long experience from the past and should they say that she has been directing, directing or organizing several Song Festivals even before the 90s, and from that time there have been some noises in our days that testify to the demands of the "friend" (as they were once called), the criticisms what he did in the external appearance compared to some singers "with foreign performances that violated the "communist education", women and men, for a suit jacket or a dress sewn with fashion, an "excessive" pendant, hair style and other of this nature that conflicted with the teachings of the Party in power.
This is how the honorable lady and singer-actress will testify Adriana Ceko: "....unlike today's young people, we had a lot back then obstacle. I had put a pendant in a festival and the director Vera Grabocka came and "nipped" me from the neck. "What is this!? Scandal, who do you put this pendant on...?!" " From that time I think it was predetermined that this 'X' will receive the prize. From that moment I felt it that I shouldn't go anymore. This was the first reason that I left eventually from the Radiotelevision festival." - concludes the outstanding singer of the 80s
Well-known for her demands, persistence and the rules she dictates for the good of work even during the years of democratic development, there has been no lack of criticism towards her, especially for the edition of the 58th Song Festival when a jury allowed foreign and there were rumors that she even influenced the winning song. One of those strong critical voices was that of Mrs. Diana Ziu, a well-known composer who expressed her admiration for Mrs. Grabocka in a letter.
This is how the composer is addressed in a part of that letter long and unable to publish to others: "Of course, I think that Vera made friends with her and the servants around her... I think they are clans among friends... And that makes skifo… So, some people in that system belong to us power in this system too, are "corks that hang on water" in every system!! It was Vera Grabocka who took away my song (subtitles of the song during the TVSH transmission once) only because the text was made by Vagjel Toce, and more said expressly on the steps of the television bus, where I was begging him to transmit it, and Vera saw nothing mercy, said: Please Diana, it can't be done, since Vangjo has a biography what there is, causes problems. Possibly write: music D. Ziu text D. Ziu!!! No, of course not! I told him... The man I don't know I never sold for bigger things than that. But after I ran away from the stairs of the television bus, I said with yourself... This is how Diana Ziu climbs the career ladder... Yes, dear Vera, I did not sell my soul to the devil not even then and even more so now. But I want to tell you Vera, thank you for everything you bring us, that in the end we have something to learn from this as well, as I do I am describing the worst model of the "vip" artist in us Albania. We have really suffered a lot as a family and it is not easy to remove you from the profession, for many years like this Vangjo (Vangjel Tocen) is removed from the theater, and His soul was torn apart, but even now, how do the times look? uk have changed, persecuted then, persecuted even now. The people who lead have not changed, unfortunately. Now we also try honestly to continue creating and writing music, however little, but with inspiration and passion, now we don't open the way, you thirsty for money, not for art, and us we are in a dictatorship again. People who lead with the power of money, and make you a friend only when you have money, it's horror. When I think of Soqja Vera, what I think of is very scary… Woe to you!!!!
Ms. Grabocka is the daughter of the former Chairman of the Korce District Party Committee, Myftar Grabocka, whose name today bears the name of a street in the great city of culture from which great names of Albanian art have emerged. All this and other noises after this edition of the Song Festival have left a somewhat bitter taste, but of course, from the artistic side, they have by no means diminished the values and contribution that Mrs. Vera Grabocka has given as a director of television programs. She is the wife of the well-known actor Timo Flloko, who for his part, after "throwing" all the roles and interpretations in Kinostudio's films into the censorship "bin", has asked for a public apology (!) and it is not clearly understood why this such statement. Are actresses to blame for a role they played? But this is another story! © Reserved material | The exclusivity on this page is dated April 6, 2022 __________________ Albanian cinematography in activity since 2013 Reference: "Criticism 1 – drama, directing, acting, OMSCA-1, 2008 / p. 392 For the part "Critical Voices" the text was formulated by the administrators of the page (P. Bj.) based on information selected from "on line" sources, in particular the interview of the singer Adriana Ceko and the composer Diana Ziu.
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