GLEDIS BICA

Gledis Bica is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and film festival director from Tirana.
In 2006, while still in high school, he made documentary film 'Drowned Dreams' about the tragedy of several Albanian immigrants who died in an attempt to illegally immigrate to Italy. The film was selected to several festivals such as DokuFest, Zagrebdox, Glasgow Intl Human Rights Film Fest and others, and was the starting point of his career. Subsequently, he studied at the Marubi Film Academy in Tirana, where he made two short fiction films, 'The Last Cigarette' (Neo-Noir) and 'Baba' (Drama), graduating in 2011 in film directing.
In 2009, he founded the 'First Step Association', an NGO based in Tirana, and in October the following year he established the 'First Step Film Festival', an international event, which today bears the name KO:SH Film Fest and is widely known. From the event's early beginning until today, he has been the festival's Creative Director. He’s former board member of Nisi Masa, the European Network of Young Cinema.
In February 2015, he founded d'ART Production, a company now mainly known for the short films it has produced and the annual KO:SH Film Festival, which it also produces. As an independent producer, Gledis has so far accomplished 3 short films, all supported by public funds of the Albanian National Center for Cinematography: 'The Conversation' (2016) by Gledis Bica as producer and director, 'Shkrepe' (2022), by director Edinjo Jahaj, and 'The Strange Case of Teresita' (2022) by Renis Hyka. His latest short film as director ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ will be premiered this autumn.