Réka Pigniczky is an American-Hungarian documentary filmmaker and producer, and the co-founder of 56Films. A former Associated Press television journalist in New York, Washington, D.C., and Budapest, she now focuses on creative documentaries exploring memory, identity, and the legacy of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Her films include Journey Home (2006, Schiffer Pál Award), Inkubátor (2010, Top 25 Hungarian films of the year), László Hudec – The Man Who Built Shanghai (2010), Heritage (2012), Cold Warriors (2017), Memory Project 1956/2021 (2021), 56/Z (2023), and Kaláka: From the Carpathians to the Caribbean (2024).
Pigniczky is also the co-founder and director of the Memory Project: Visual History Archive, featuring more than 150 life-story interviews with Hungarian refugees from WWII and 1956. She holds graduate degrees in International Relations and Documentary Filmmaking from Columbia University. She is a board member of MADOKE (Hungarian Documentary Association).