Date of birth: 10 August, 1952
Education:
1980 Writer’s Collegium (MAFILM)
1975 ELTE University/Faculty of Arts on the Programme of Library-Andragogy
Work Experience:
2001-2004: director, Forum Film Foundation
Responsibilities: making documentary-series in Szendrőlád
2000-2003: lecturer, ELTE and SOTE University, Department of Sociology
1992-2002: researcher at Museum of Ethnography in Hungary (Romany Collection)
Responsibilities: handling of film collection, documentation and archives.
1990-1994 dramaturg, board-member at Hétfői Műhely Studio
From 1988 documentary film director at Hunnia Film Studio and Forum Film Foundation. Special focus on ethnical and subcultural traditions.
1980-1990 dramaturg, Hunnia Film Studio, where I have also written several feature film scenarios, such as:
- Mozart and Salieri (András Surányi)
- The end of the miracle (János Vészi)
- Dizziness (János Szász)
- Holiday makers (Can Togay)
- Good by my friends (Sándor Simó)
- Erosion (András Surányi)
- Wojczek (János Szász)
- Francesca’s Sundays (Sándor Simo, Award of critics, Best scenario)
Selected Filmography and Awards:
Infinite Journey (1982)
Photo-Graphs (1990, awarded at Miskolc, Jerusalem and New York film festival for the best film)
Sadness Goes into My Eyes (1993)
When Blood (1994)
Bums and Servants (1996)
Jailprince (1999)
Two Years and Six Months (1999)
Happiness is a lot of Little Joys (1999)
Márta (2001)
Late Birth (2002)
Stories of Success (2002, Camera Award of the Hungarian Association of Documentary Film Directors)
Would Henrik Kugler Have Thought (2003)
Fitting I-IV. (2004)
Peasant Actors (2004)
Album of Smiles (2004)
Decolores (2004)
Escape into Love (ETA, You Directed This One) (2006, best director award at the 38th Hungarian Film week)
Education:
1980 Writer’s Collegium (MAFILM)
1975 ELTE University/Faculty of Arts on the Programme of Library-Andragogy
Work Experience:
2001-2004: director, Forum Film Foundation
Responsibilities: making documentary-series in Szendrőlád
2000-2003: lecturer, ELTE and SOTE University, Department of Sociology
1992-2002: researcher at Museum of Ethnography in Hungary (Romany Collection)
Responsibilities: handling of film collection, documentation and archives.
1990-1994 dramaturg, board-member at Hétfői Műhely Studio
From 1988 documentary film director at Hunnia Film Studio and Forum Film Foundation. Special focus on ethnical and subcultural traditions.
1980-1990 dramaturg, Hunnia Film Studio, where I have also written several feature film scenarios, such as:
- Mozart and Salieri (András Surányi)
- The end of the miracle (János Vészi)
- Dizziness (János Szász)
- Holiday makers (Can Togay)
- Good by my friends (Sándor Simó)
- Erosion (András Surányi)
- Wojczek (János Szász)
- Francesca’s Sundays (Sándor Simo, Award of critics, Best scenario)
Selected Filmography and Awards:
Infinite Journey (1982)
Photo-Graphs (1990, awarded at Miskolc, Jerusalem and New York film festival for the best film)
Sadness Goes into My Eyes (1993)
When Blood (1994)
Bums and Servants (1996)
Jailprince (1999)
Two Years and Six Months (1999)
Happiness is a lot of Little Joys (1999)
Márta (2001)
Late Birth (2002)
Stories of Success (2002, Camera Award of the Hungarian Association of Documentary Film Directors)
Would Henrik Kugler Have Thought (2003)
Fitting I-IV. (2004)
Peasant Actors (2004)
Album of Smiles (2004)
Decolores (2004)
Escape into Love (ETA, You Directed This One) (2006, best director award at the 38th Hungarian Film week)