Guest

Árpád Bogdán

Bio: 

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
Event Date & Location: 
Nov 14, 16:30
Toldi
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Ghetto Balboa

Nimrod Shanit

Bio: 

Nimrod Shanit is an award winning director and producer of feature-length fiction and non-fiction films. A veteran executive producer of international co-productions and a pioneer of the first completely integrated mixed reality production company, blimey, in Jerusalem.

Event Date & Location: 
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Holy City VR
Event: 
Vektor VR - Official opening

Elita Klavina

Bio: 

Elita Klavina is a former journalist, and an actress at the New Riga Theatre. She graduated as a film director from the National Film School of the Latvian Academy of Culture in 2019. Her short film, Pinokio (2017), was nominated for the Best Student Film Award at the Latvian National Film Awards.

Event Date & Location: 
Nov 15, 17:00
Művész
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Zoryana Horobraya

Anna Korzh

Bio: 

Anna Korzh is a graduate of the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television. She represented the Ukrainian film school at Interaction/Interdoc 2016 in Serbia, and is one of the curators of the documentary program at Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema. Since 2015 she has organized a film school for teenagers from frontline zones.

Event Date & Location: 
Nov 13, 18:00
Művész
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
The View from the Window

Dina Naser

Bio: 

A Jordanian director and producer with Palestinian roots, Dina Naser graduated with a BA in Art and Graphic Design. In 2013, she received the DocNomads scholarship to pursue a Master's Degree in Documentary Filmmaking. Naser’s devotion for documenting is inspired by seemingly ordinary people and stories that spring from her homeland in Palestine.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - Sea Wash
2015 - One Minute
Event Date & Location: 
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Tiny Souls
Event: 
4 years in a refugee tent

Saeed Al Batal

Bio: 

Born in Syria, Saeed Al Batal is a citizen journalist, photographer and filmmaker. He has led numerous trainings in photography and news reporting, and has worked as a reporter on current affairs in Syria for agencies, radio stations and institutions worldwide. He is one of the founders of the online gallery, Sam Lenses, and the Humans of Syria project.

Event Date & Location: 
Nov 17, 16:45
Toldi
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Still Recording

Dmitri Vologdin

Bio: 

Dmitri Vologdin was born in Russia in 1988. He graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television with a degree in Film and TV Directing, and studied at the Cinema School of Krzysztof Zanussi in Warsaw.

Event Date & Location: 
Nov 15, 17:00
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Russian Dreamer

Ágota Varga

Bio: 

Ágota Varga has received the Balázs Béla Prize, the UNESCO Prize, the Tolerance Prize, the Prize of Film Critics, the Ember Judit Prize, and several awards at Hungarian and international film festivals and competitions. She has made over 100 documentaries, including several films focusing on unearthing the past, which have contributed to a movement that started in the 1980s.

Selected filmography: 
2015 - The Light of Our Eyes
2013 - The Spymaster
2004 - Descendants
2000 - Porrajmos - The Gypsy Holocaust
Event Date & Location: 
Nov 13, 16:15
Toldi
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
The Prison Chaplain

Mária Takács

Bio: 

Mária Takács is a freelance film-maker. Since graduating from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, she has worked as a director for Hungarian Television, and as a video journalist for Népszabadság online and origo.hu. She has also made a number of videos for civil society organizations.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - More Than a Relationship
2015 - Hot Men Cold Dictatorships
2009 - Secret Years
Event Date & Location: 
Nov 15, 17:30
Művész
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
The Pastor of Mandák House

Tomislav Žaja

Bio: 

Tomislav Žaja is a producer, writer and director with 25 years of experience in film and television productions. Wrote, directed and produced about fifty documentaries, few shorts and experimental films, two TV adaptations of theatre plays and three fiction films. He is the managing director and founder of the production company, Gral Film. He is a member of the European Documentary Network.

Selected filmography: 
2015 - Free
2013 - New Day
2012 - Demetri and Bruno
Event Date & Location: 
Nov 15, 17:15
Toldi
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Neighbors

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