by Raimonda MOISIU/

We are pleased to announce to the Albanian –American friends and supporters of Albanian Cinema Project (ACP), the release of  “Tomka and his friends”. Albanian movie is currently scheduled to premiere for audiences at  Trinity College, Hartford  CT, on September 19th , 2015. The screenplay of “Tomka and his Friends”  is written by the well -known  visionary director  Xhanfise Keko, who also produced the movie, on 1977 year. The event is designed by Albanian Cinema Project (ACP), in cooperating with one of the main protagonists, Regina Longo,  including a large group of contributors as American Associates and  Albanians, too. It is supported unanimously by the Library of Congress, the Albanian Embassy in the United States, and the archive of the film. The idea is simple and just as dignified: made it possible that we were all working to create the best work that we could do at its best of  protecting the Albanian  film culture , the restoration  of old Albanian films , technically, those  movies that have began to crumble in the archives, and the restoration of  their models to  contemporary forms HD, BLUE RAY, etc. The first premier of  “Tomka and his Friens”  it’s  already  released in Tirana and it was presented  by the main  character  of the film, Enea Zhegu (Tomka), the second one  was  showed  in Edinburgh Scotland,  with  a special guest, another Albanian  well-known actor, Herion Mustafaraj.  Recently, “Tomka and his friends” film  is going to be   scheduled to premiere for audiences in Paris, including the appearance of Arben Puto, etj. This is the third event comes out to the public and the first one in the USA. It is roomers that  special guest will be present, including the appearance of Flurans Ilia , who starred in the movie as Guri character. We think that media exposure is essential to the success of film in order to reach wider audiences.We want to earn the deepest trust of audience.

Raimonda MOISIU

Hartford CT USA