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Lili

Péter Hegedűs is an award-winning filmmaker and academic whose films have received critical acclaim and have been broadcast around the world. After establishing his production company, Soul Vision Films, he made Inheritance: A Fisherman’s Story, based on an ecological disaster in Hungary. The film was shortlisted for the 2003 Academy Awards. He is currently program director for the Master of Screen Production program at Griffith Film School, in Brisbane, Australia.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - Strudel Sisters (documentary short)
2015 - Eva (documentary short)
2014 - Big Stories, Small Towns
2003 - Inheritance, a Fisherman's Story
2000 - Grandfathers and Revolutions

Hacked - Non-existing Tribe, Gets Lost

Dávid Kresalek has been working in films since 1997, first as a screenwriter than since 2000, as a director. He has worked on many documentary films and TV-series as a director and editor. He has been the co-leader of the film and media vocational training group at the Green Rooster Secondary School.

Ghetto Balboa

Árpád Bogdán began his career in acting and stage directing while in college, when he also organized creative workshops for disadvantaged children. His directorial debut, Happy New Life, premiered in the Panorama section at Berlinale 2007, and was awarded the Manfred Salzgeber Award - Special Mention. His latest feature-length fiction, Genesis, also premiered at Berlinale, in 2018, and won a number of awards.

Selected filmography: 
2018 - Genesis
2007 - Happy New Life

Free University

Born in the UK, Jonathan Hunter moved to Budapest in 2016, and studied documentary filmmaking and philosophy at Central European University. Hunter has made educational content, several commercial videos and short documentaries. He now works as a freelance filmmaker and videographer in Florence, Italy.

The Euphoria of Being

Réka Szabó studied mathematics and informatics, while pursuing contemporary dance. She is the artistic director of The Symptoms, a contemporary dance-theatre company in Hungary. After making two experimental shorts, The Euphoria of Being is her first feature-length documentary.

Selected filmography: 
2014 - Mourning
2010 - Shadow Movie

Above the Line

Anikó Mária Nagy graduated as a broadcast director from the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest, in 2004. She worked as an art director for Film.dok, a Hungarian-Romanian documentary film festival between 2005 and 2007, and has directed for Duna Television.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - ...every little kid
2015 - Box Street (producer)
2015 - My Great-grandfathers and I (producer)

Alla Zingara

Glória Halász studied Film and Media Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Several of her documentaries have been distributed internationally and won important prizes, including the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival). She has also produced numerous video clips and commercials.

Selected filmography: 
2018 - Three Dances
2017 - Rupa's Boutique
2016 - What a Circus!

The Crazy Circles Of Freedom

András Dér is a freelance filmmaker and theatre director. He has made several documentaries, short and feature-length fiction films, and films for television. He is an assistant professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, where he also teaches film. He was awarded the Béla Balázs and Silver Pen prize.

Selected filmography: 
1992 - The Shadowed Century (feature fiction)
1989 - Siberian Summer (short fiction)
1987 - Pretty Girls

Klára Muhi is a filmmaker, scriptwriter and film aesthete. She has wrote and directed several documentaries and fiction films.

Selected filmography: 
2007 - Thoughts of Age and Camps
2004 - Koltai Diary 2001-2003

Downstream

Máté Bartha is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Budapest. He obtained two MAs, at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design, and at the University of Theatre and Film Arts. His most recent photography project, Kontakt, was awarded the Robert Capa Grand Prize Hungary in 2018.

Earth

Nicolaus Geyrhalter is a director, cinematographer, scriptwriter and producer. At the age of 22, he formed his own production company, Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion (NGF), which has since produced many award-winning documentaries, fiction features, and series for TV and cinema. Geyrhalter's films have been screened at the New York Museum of Modern Art's Doc Fortnight, and at multiple festivals worldwide.

Selected filmography: 
2018 - The Border Fence
2016 - Homo sapiens
2015 - Over the Years

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