杰尔吉·乔瓦尼，Gjergj Xhuvani was born in 1963, in Tirana in Albania. In 1986, he graduated from the Arts Academy (majoring in the dramatic arts) in Tirana. From 1986 to 1990, he worked as an assistant director on many films, and in 1991, directed his first short film Bardh e zi (1991).