{"id":7055,"date":"2026-07-13T00:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/16\/sten-dragoti\/---c24110c1-d43e-4195-9746-365094510647"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:06:38","slug":"sten-dragoti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2026\/07\/13\/sten-dragoti\/","title":{"rendered":"Sten Dragoti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sten Dragoti, Albanian-American director and producer, passed away in Los Angeles, California (USA). He was born in New York, in a family of exiles from Dragoti of Tepelena, in 1932. He completed his higher studies at &#8220;Cooper Union&#8221; University in New York, in the field of visual arts. In 1959, he started working as a cartoon director, then moved to the television advertising industry as an art director, where he made over 150 commercials. A significant portion of them have entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and have been honored with prestigious awards, including the &#8220;Tony&#8221; award (the highest television award in the United States) given for the series of films about New York, titled &#8220;<i>I Love New York<\/i>.&#8221; In 1972, he also began directing artistic films such as &#8220;<i>The Dirty Little Bill<\/i>,&#8221; &#8220;<i>Love at First Bite<\/i>&#8221; (1979), &#8220;<i>Mr. Mom<\/i>&#8221; (1983), a satire on marital relationships, &#8220;<i>The Man with One Red Shoe<\/i>&#8221; (1989), which also features the Albanian-American actor James Belushi, and others. Sten Dragoti&#8217;s films tend to address family and social issues. In 1995, he visited Albania as a producer. <i>(In the photo: Sten Dragoti)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 1 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 509.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0236769\/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sten Dragoti, Albanian-American director and producer, passed away in Los Angeles, California (USA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9868,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions\/9868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}