Dorottya Zurbó is a Bódy Gábor Award-winning documentary filmmaker and assistant professor. Her films have premiered at prestigious international film festivals, including Sundance, IDFA, and Locarno. Her latest feature documentary, Agent of Happiness (2024), co-directed with Arun Bhattarai, premiered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance, screened at over 100 international film festivals, won numerous awards, received nominations for the IDA Documentary Awards and the Grierson Awards, and was theatrically released in more than 20 countries. Her previous films include The Next Guardian(2017, IDFA) and Easy Lessons (2018, Locarno Critics’ Week). Her work explores questions of identity, cultural encounters, and human relationships through intimate, character-driven storytelling. She graduated from the international DocNomads Joint Master programme, where she later taught documentary filmmaking for over a decade. She also holds a doctoral degree (DLA) in Film Arts from the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) in Budapest, where she currently teaches documentary directing. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the European Film Academy, and a co-founder of the Hungarian Documentary Association (MADOKE).