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Kanzoli

Zoltán Gálovits studied journalism in Oradea and theatre studies in Cluj-Napoca. After his university studies, he worked as an editor and reporter, and later, he participated in various theatre and film projects as a dramaturg and co-creator. Since 2008, he is a staff member of Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre in Timișoara. In 2012/2013, he was assistant artistic director, and currently he is art consultant to the institution. He is also the artistic director of TESZT, the Euroregional Theatre Festival in Timișoara.

Szabolcs Hajdu is a script writer, theatre and film director. He started his career as a child actor in Debrecen, Hungary, later he graduated from the Theatre and Film Academy in Budapest as a film director. His latest feature film – his seventh movie –, This is Not the Time of My Life (Ernelláék Farkaséknál) won the Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2016. He is the founder of Látókép Ensemble which also produced Kanzoli as their first documentary film.

Iza

Gergely Pápai studied documentary filmmaking at the Cultural and Visual Anthropology faculty of the University of Miskolc. He is a co-founder of Zpok Medialab. His work focuses mainly on human rights and environmental issues. He has worked on several documentary films as a cameraman and an editor. This documentary, Iza, is his directorial debut and his first festival-nominated film.

Iborfia

Alexa Bakony is a director who earned her degree in 2017 from the University of Theatre and Film Arts of Budapest. Her short films have been screened at many festivals worldwide. Currently, she is working on her first feature-length documentary as an independent artist. The project is funded by the Hungarian Film Fund.

Burdened by the Past

Asia Dér was born in Bratislava, but grew up in Budapest. After earning an MA degree in Aesthetics, she studied documentary film direction at DOCnomads — a joint master studies program of the Budapest, Lisbon and Brussels film schools, and finished magna cum laude. Her films have been screened at festivals in France, Brazil and in the Czech Republic. Her short film, Letters from Mom was nominated for the best short film award at the Hungarian Film Week. Currently, she works as a freelance documentary film director, is a member of Docnomads’ Alumni Association, and a chair member of Matchframe Productions, which aims to promote and support young documentary filmmakers in Eastern Europe.

Brass Bandits

Lili

Ábel Regős studied filmmaking at the Novus Art School in Hungary. He has worked for creative workshops since 2013, and has made music videos for several bands, as well as independent short films.

Mother's Imprint

Kata Olah began work as an editor, host, and director for a variety of television productions in the mid 1990's. For 10 years, she produced television series and short films. It was only in 2010 that she began to focus on directing. In that year, she completed a documentary for HBO entitled Romacops. Since then, she has directed several mid-length documentaries and popular science miniseries. Her first short fiction, En Passant, has won a number of international awards.

No Country for the Poor

László Bihari has designed online campaign videos for non-profit organizations for the past nine years. He is one of the founders of the creative team, ZPOK. This is their first documentary film production.

Own Death

Péter Forgács is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest. Since 1978 he has made more than thirty films and several media installations. He is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award-winning films and installations, which are often based on home movies from the 1920s-1980s that document the ordinary lives soon to be ruptured by an extraordinary, historical trauma occurring off-screen.

Separated

Máté Artur Vincze is a Budapest-based filmmaker. He graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, where he studied documentary direction, in 2015. His graduation film, Separated, premiered at the Budapest International Documentary Festival and was part of a national campaign initiated by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. In 2016, Máté was selected to take part in the European Social Documentary (ESoDOC) workshop with a multimedia project called “Quiet Achievers”. He is currently working on his first feature-length documentary about international adoption.

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