Sami Mustafa

Sami is an Independent film maker that gives opportunity to young Roma people to learn and to express other Roma lives, experience and identity through artistic methods, producing documentary films. Sami made his first film as a trainee in 2003 in Plemetina village in Kosovo, where the native of this town learned the techniques of film making with Balkan Sunflowers NGO. Sami has produced more than twenty-five documentaries, doc-fiction, and music videos on Roma culture, art, human rights and social life in Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, France and Slovenia. One of his films "Road to Home", was screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2007; it was the only Kosovar film presented. In 2007, Sami founded Romawood, a production house focusing on Roma issues and population. Later that same year, he initiated the "Jekh Kham Jekh Sel/One Sun One Nation" project, which has made the most indelible impact on his life and work. Sami also took the initiative to one of the greatest Roma event in Kosovo as an artistic director of Rolling Film Festival - films made by and about Roma around the world. Sami is also a film tutor. Many of these films have won iternational pricess in Film Festivals. He is also a one of founder of upcoming new Romani Film Commission to support Roma Films around the world.