Parta Kelmendi was born in Pristina. She studied Film Directing at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pristina. Since 2000, she has worked for Company 21, a TV network in Kosovo, as a director and producer on TV shows, documentaries, music festivals, and short films. Parta’s short documentary Birth Does Not Ask When won the Jury Award for Best Albanian Film at the Tirana International Film Festival in 2007. Her short films Selfie (2016) and Girl (2015) screened at the DEA Film Festival in Albania. She’s a Tatino’s film Alumni and Era is her debut feature film.