Selami_Taraku
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Biography He was born on April 14, 1951 in Peja. He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown. He studied acting at the University of Prishtina, SHLP-acting group where he graduated in 1974, and after he continued his further studies in Film and TV directing at the University of Belgrade, at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, where he obtained a master's degree in film and television directing during the years from1977 to 1981. After that for a while he worked at the Gjakova Theater - as an actor. He was for a long time a member of the Association of Film and TV Artists in Belgrade, ex Yugoslavia - in the directing department.Then he continued to work at RTP - as film and television director, at RTP he also worked as a director in the editorial offices of the documentary film and the cultural-artistic program, and then, as a supervisor of the directing sector of the production of TVP, where he realised a multitude of shows, feuilleton series, documentary - feuilleton, documentary films and acted, etc. while in Peja, Gjakova and Prishtina he worked from time to time as a theatre director. Taraku was the founder and lecturer at the "Odhise Paskali '' Academy of Performing Arts in Peja. At the University of Pristina, Faculty of Arts, Dramatic Arts, Film and TV Directing, he worked as a Professor for the subject of film and television directing until he retired. He is also known as a cartoonist in the pre-war and post-war periodicals of Kosovo, while now he is very active with them on Facebook. He recently translated the book - "Basic problems of directing"written by the director, psychologist and well-known professor Hugo Kllajn, as well as his personal authorial book of poems under the title "Don't ask me anymore" and published by Fad Publishing House, where inside the book covers there is a bunch of poems that put our man against all the sacrifices of life. The book is fully illustrated with the author's cartoons, drawings and graphics. In all the aforementioned films, Selamiu is announced as a double author: as a screenwriter and as a director. Otherwise, the aforementioned films have also been presented at international festivals: in Bilbao (Spain), Krakow (Poland), Venice (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Lille (France), Oberhausen (former R.F. of Germany), Pula (Croatia), Moscow (USSR) etc. Professional television projects (as screenwriter and director) ● Baths in Kosovo, documentary film (1984), TV Prishtina; ● Evidences, documentary -feuilleton series (1984), TVP; ● In the late hours, documentary series (1985-1990), TVP; ● Creative guest, documentary series (1985-1990), TVP; ● Shiver of colours, feature film (1986), TVP; ● Our Mother Teresa, documentary film (1987), TVP ● Village school, feature film (1987), TVP; ● Father by A. Strindberg, TV drama (2007), TV21, Pristina, Ks; Theater ● My ‘kulak’ socialist father, T. Paterliq, People's Theater, Gjakovë (1985); ● The Balkan spy by D. Kovačević, People's Theater, Gjakovë (1989); ● Nastasia Filipovna F. Dostoevsky, People's Theater of Kosovo (1990); ● The Idiot by F. Dostoevsky, Dodona Theater, Pristina (1991); ● Father by A. Strindberg, City Theater, Peja (1993); National Theater of Kosovo (1996-97); National Theater of Kosovo (2006); ● The Wardrobeman by R. Harvurd, Popular Theatre, Ks (1995); ● After the War by H. Muliqi, City Theater, Peja (2004); ● Chaos of patriotism in Paris by H. Muliqi, Popular Theater, Gjakovë; ● The Witness by S. Taraku, City Theater, Tetovo (2010); Rewards and laurels - 1980 "THE GREAT GOLD PLAQUE OF BELGRADE" for the film "KOKANI", at the Short Film Festival, Belgrade. - 1981 "GREAT GOLD PLAQUE OF BELGRADE", for the best film at the Short Film Festival in Belgrade for the film "THE CASE OF BOGOLJUB SAVKOVIĆ – THE MELTERS", Belgrade. - 1981 "THE MAIN PRIZE OF THE JURY OF TV BELGRADE" for the best direction at the Festival, for the film "THE CASE OF BOGOLJUB SAVKOVIĆ - THE MELTERS", at the Short Film Festival, Belgrade. - 1981 "JEZHI'S REWARD" for the most spiritual film at the Festival, for the film "THE CASE OF BOGOLJUB SAVKOVIĆ – THE MELTERS", at the Short Film Festival, Belgrade. - 1981 "COURAGEOUS FLOWER" annual award for outstanding achievements in the field of film, for the film "THE CASE OF BOGOLJUB SAVKOVIĆ – THE MELTERS", Belgrade. - 1981 "PLAKETA E NOVA MACEDONIŠE", PLAQUES OF NEW MACEDONIA’ in the retrospective of the Belgrade Festival in Skopje for the film "THE CASE OF BOGOLJUB SAVKOVIĆ-THE MELTERS’. - 1981 " THE MAIN PRIZE OF THE OFFICIAL JURY MAIN PRIZE" of the most prestigious international short film festival in Oberhausen for the best film in this festival "THE CASE OF BOGOLJUB SAVKOVIĆ-THE MELTERS". The film was also purchased and shown on TV ZDF, former RF of Germany. - 1981 "SPECIAL DIPLOMA OF THE EVANGELISTIC CHURCH", for the most humane film at the most prestigious international festival of Oberhausen for the film "THE CASE OF BOGOLJUB SAVKOVIĆ -THE MELTERS- The film was also purchased by the Evangelical Church of the Federal Republic of Germany, under licence - 1985 "SPECIAL DIPLOMA FOR EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE MASTERY OF CINEMATOGRAPHY" for the film "THE CASE OF BOGOLJUB SAVKOVIĆ- ‘THE MELTERS" International Festival in Moscow / USSR. - 1987 THE "RTP ‘ANNUAL AWARD" for achievements in the television field. Pristina. THEATER REWARDS - 1991, the play "IDIOTI", F. M. Dostoevsky was chosen as one of the most popular plays good from the theatre criticism of the former Yugoslavia at the Zemun Festival. - 1993, F. M. Dostoevsky's play "IDIOTI" was awarded for the role of Rogozhin (actor Enver Petrovci), with the "ALEKSANDER MOISIU" award at the National Theater Festival, Tirana. - 1995, the play "WARDROBE MAN" R. Harvud, at the Leskovac Festival in the former Yugoslavia, was awarded with the awards for the best leading role (Shani Pallaska) and the best secondary role (Kumrije Hoxha). - 2004, the show "AFTER THE WAR" was awarded with the "New Hopes" prize (actor Agon Bala) for the role of Ion at the International Comedy Festival in Korça, Albania. - 2007, the show "PATRONIC CHAOS IN PARIS" by H. Mulliqi, was shown in Ulcinj (Montenegro) as well as in Switzerland. - 2012, "THE WITNESS" at the City Theater of Tetova, in the former Republic of Macedonia: Playwright and director Selami Taraku. - 2013, "THE WITNESS" at the National Theater of Kosovo, Kosovo. Playwright and director Selami Taraku. In many of these above-mentioned theatrical performances, Prof. Selamiu appears in the role of the author, the adaptor of the literary work as well as the director