(July 18, 2016) Italian Ambassador to Tirana, Alberto Cutillo, awarded the film director and editor Roland Sejko during a ceremony at the Italian Ambassadorial Residence with the Order of the Star of Italy in the Class of Knight, a memo from the Embassy reads, “for his commendable commitment in promoting amicable and cooperation relations between Italy and Albania and for his spirit of initiative shown in launching projects aimed at keep this bond alive”. The ceremony was attended by friends and family of the Albanian film director, as well as the Minister of Culture and representatives of the main Albanian institutions. He graduated in Tirana and then fled Albania in 1991 on board one of the ships of the great exodus to Rome, where, since 1995 has been working at the Historical Archives of the Istituto Luce. In 2008 he was writing and directing his first documentary, “Albania, a history in pictures “. His latest work is “The Wait” (2015). For several years he was editor of “Bota Shqipatre”, the only periodical published in Albanian in Italy. (Red)