Studied at FAMU in the years 1959–65. He then worked in his native Albania for 30 years as a cameraman, director and screenwriter. He made 24 feature films and dozens of documentaries. He was also an actor, appearing in the Italian film Lamerica and the Cypriot film And the Train Goes to the Sky. From 1998 to 2002 he was Albania’s ambassador to Prague. He is currently working as Executive Director of the Forum for Copyright Control.