Inka Achté Mentor
Filmmaker, FINLAND

Inka Achté is a Finnish filmmaker and a former sales agent whose career in the field of documentary film spans 20 years. Alongside directing non-fiction in short, feature and series formats, Achté currently works as the Artistic Director of DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival and as Head of Acquisitions at Raina, an agency focusing on all aspects of festival distribution of documentary films from all over the world. A frequent mentor and lecturer, she has taught at Aalto University in Helsinki, the Norwegian Film School Lillehammer, Raindance Film Institute in London, EICTV Cuba, and consulted/tutored at numerous professional industry contexts, for example at IDFA, Asian Documentary Clinic, Baltic Sea Docs, Astra Film Doc Tank and Tempo Documentary Film Festival.

Flóra Erdélyi Mentor
Editor, HUNGARY

Flóra Erdélyi is a freelance film editor based in Budapest, Hungary. She has been working on several short and feature fiction - The Flower of the Apple Tree by Dóra Szűcs, Now is Now 2019 by Péter Szajki, Patthelyzet by Dóra Szűcs, animations - North by Bente Lohne, and feature length documentaries - Hi Sári! by Sári Haragonics, Hatchery by Máté Fuchs, Howling Like We Do by Asia Dér, The Missing Tale by Klára Trencsényi.

She received her Motion Picture Editor BA degree at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest in 2011. Apart from that she also studied at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and at ELTE Institute of Art In Film theory and film history.

Her most recent project is Hi Sári by Sári Haragonics. She is also known for the HBO film, Her Mothers by Sári Haragonics and Asia Dér for which she won Best Editing at the Moscow International Documentary Film Festival in 2021. She is a member of MADOKE - the Hungarian Documentary Association, and HSE - Hungarian Society of Film and Video Editors.

Anna Kis Mentor
Director and Editor, HUNGARY

Anna Kis started her filmmaking career in 2002. After a decade of teaching, translation, and journalism, and a PhD course in Renaissance and Baroque English Literature at ELTE, she graduated at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, as a director and film editor. She was the student of Péter Gothár and Ildikó Enyedi. Ever since she has been active as an editor and story editor of shorts (eg.: First Love by Ildikó Enyedi), documentaries and concert shows for TV. She has directed shorts and observational documentaries which have won several Best Documentary awards in Hungarian festivals (Home Paradise, Not About Family). Recently she has been active as the story editor of Fairy Garden by Gergő Somogyvári, shooting her own feature-length documentary Practices in Harmony (working title), co-directing and editing 80 Angry Journalists by András Földes and editing a personal documentary by Diana Groó.

Brigid O’Shea Mentor
Documentary consultant, AUSTRALIA

Brigid O’Shea is a documentary consultant, helping documentary projects and filmmakers reach their full international potential and professional goals. Her international network spans the globe, working on all continents, with both emerging talent and industry veterans. She’s worked with ARTE on projects like the Generation Africa and Generation Ukraine, working on festival strategy for the collections of films. Films she has consulted on have premiered at all the major international festivals including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, IDFA etc.. She serves on the boards of Circle Women Doc Accelerator, and Dokufest in Prizren, Kosovo. She is an intersectional queer feminist. She founded together with other colleagues the Documentary Association of Europe, a members network and support system for documentary filmmakers inside and outside of Europe that has grown to 800 members in just four years and recently started the project Ateliers Cocoon to offer documentary filmmakers a space for recuperation and transformation. She currently serves as the director of this organization.

She was head of the DOK Industry Programme at DOK Leipzig and worked for the Berlin International Film Festival for more than 10 years. She moderates and curates programmes and discussions on non-fiction filmmaking as an internationally-respected curator with a wide and diverse network. She serves on selection committees and scouts works for international platforms. She tutors across the globe, particularly in Asia, Africa, the Eastern Partnership countries on festival strategy, international co-financing and pitching as well as cultural management.

Enikő Gyureskó Festival Director

Enikő Gyureskó has a BA in Liberal Arts (major in Art History, minor in Philosophy) and an MA degree in Design and Art Management. She has over 20 years of experience in project coordination gained in the cultural and civic sphere. Since 2016, she has been a key figure at the VERZIÓ International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, one of the most prominent film festivals in Hungary, member of the Human Rights Film Network and the Doc Around Europe festival network. She has first served as Festival Coordinator; from 2021 as Managing Director, and since 2024 as Festival Director. Since 2020 she is part of the KineDok team, Europe’s largest documentary film club network, and since 2022 she is a board-member of MADOKE, the Hungarian Documentary Association. Member of the Documentary Association Europe. She has served on juries for the competition programs of the One World Prague and DOK.fest München film festivals, and she regularly takes part in industry talks where she shares her professional experience from audience development and film programming to funding cultural and civic initiatives. She is passionate about visual arts and music since early childhood, devoted to partaking in actions that aim at enhancing the awareness about geopolitics, and the social discourse about cultural politics, and human rights protection.

Fanni Hatházi Head of DocPro
Director, Producer

Fanni Hatházi is a director, TV and creative producer from Budapest. She earned her MA in Documentary Directing from the University of Theatre and Film Arts. Her graduation film, Almost Fine, premiered at Verzió in 2022. With over a decade of experience as a field producer, reporter, director and creative producer, she has worked across a wide range of media formats. She also gained experience at dok.incubator, where she served as Head of Production. Currently, she is a board member of MADOKE (Hungarian Documentary Association) and is developing her first fiction feature while continuing to work on documentary projects.

Judit Sára Elek DocPro coordinator
Filmmaker

Judit Sára Elek is a documentary filmmaker based in Budapest. After studying film theory and history, she began her MA studies in documentary film directing in Budapest. However, due to the political situation and the loss of university autonomy, she completed her degree at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She has experience as an assistant director, producer’s assistant, archive researcher, and cultural event organizer. Her short films have competed at festivals such as BIDF and Verzio. As a director, she explores human connection and the beauty that can emerge even in the most difficult circumstances.