Best documentaries

This was what united 90 young artists in the “Circles” project, a competition of short video documentaries, financed by the “Soros” foundation and with the media support of the Dritan Hoxha Foundation.

24 best documentaries were selected by a group of well known journalists of the media world, and were broadcasted for several weeks on the National TV, Top Channel.

“This is an initiative that came as a need for communicating differently, for transmitting more from our lives in the media, for hearing confessions and testimonies from the lives of common people, tales from forgotten communities, confessions of the suburb youth and in deep areas, who need attention and dedication, who want to see and make plans for a more decent future in this space that we have, and which suffocates dignity and our common values”, declared Andi Drobusha, the Soros Foundation Director.

“We started this project with the idea to teach the youth. The result is that we learned more from them”, declared Fatos Baxhaku.

On behalf of the foundation, director Vjollca Dako gave the special award to the documentary about the life of Agustin, a paralyzed 13 year old who smiles each day, despite the big social problems of his family.

“This special award goes to Erjona Çami for the video-documentary ‘Agustin’, with the motivation for professionalism in the realization of a documentary that brought to us a character that inspires us with his courage to live as everyone else”, Dako declared.

“Journalist Enkel Demi, on behalf of the jury composed by Iris Luarasi and Blendi Salaj, underlined the support of Top Channel, which is following the tradition of its founder, Dritan Hoxha, for being closer to the citizens.

“What the Soros Foundation is doing is a very good thing, because it allows some people to get affirmed and enter a profession in which they have aspirations and for which they have been graduated. The other part is Top Channel, through the Dritan Hoxha foundation, which has filled a segment that is not usually done by commercial TVs. By broadcasting these documentaries, Top Channel has filled the public education criteria. For me this was very important for a National TV”, Enkel Demi declared.

The jury gave the third award to the documentary “Ninullat”, created and directed by Gjergj Gjeli, who treats the issue of abandoned children. The second award went to the “Painted Red”, of Anis Leka, while the first award went to “Albania under scissors”, of Mirel Gyzeli.

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