Children for sale, stories from Albania
(Enfance à vendre, histoires d'Albanie)
directed by Clara Ott| 2004
 
  The Director

Clara Ott. Born in Paris in 1965, Clara Ott studied music (piano) and cinema until 1985 when she entered IDHEC/FEMIS, the Institute of Advanced Cinema Studies/ European Foundation of Professional Image and Sound.
For three years, she directed various films including the 16mm documentary "Ardoisière", which was shown in various student film festivals across Europe, and a poetic fiction on 35mm B&W on the composer Robert Schumann, "Les chants de l’ombre" (Songs of the Shadow). This film was chosen by the Creteil Festival of Women’s Films and won the Best Romantic Short prize at the Cabourg Festival in 1989, and the audience’s prize at Blois in 1990 (distributed on cable, Paris premiere).
From 1989 to 1994, she devoted herself essentially to editing full-length films and worked on features such as "Urga" by Nikita Mikhalkov, and "Farinelli" by Gerard Corbiau.
In 1995 and 1996, she was an employee at l'Académie de France à Rome Villa Médicis (cinema section) where she wrote the script for a full-length documentary/feature on the last years of the life of Franz Liszt "Nuages gris", Grey Clouds, (selected for presentation at the La Ciotat Screenwriters Festival, 1999).
On her return to Paris, she worked principally on editing documentaries, and pursued the writing and directing of fiction and documentary projects. She directed and showed "Festin pour douze percussionnistes" in 2000 and 2001 (Aix en Provence Festival 2001, city of music and Prague Festival in 2002).
Since 2002, she has travelled regularly to Albania to exhibit her photographs of the street children, and to the publication of a book of photographs to increase awareness of child trafficking victims (published by Ilo/Ipec). She will finish "Childhood for sale, Stories from Albania" in Autumn 2004.
 
 
 
  Filmographie
2001 - Festin pour 12 percussionnistes (doc.)
1988 - Les chants de l'ombre (CM)
1987 - Ardoisière (CM)

 
     
 
 
   
 
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