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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

Anna Kryvenko

Bio: 

Anna Kryvenko is an artist working with video and fine art photography. She studied theatre directing at KNUTKT (Ukraine), and alternative theatre directing at DAMU (CZ). She is currently a student at the Centre for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU. Her films and performances have been screened at the Fluidum Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Intermedia BB, and Visions du Reél.

Event Date & Location: 
Nov 16, 14:15
Művész
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
My Unknown Soldier

Péter Hegedűs

Bio: 

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
Event Date & Location: 
Nov 13, 20:30
Toldi
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Lili

Georgy Molodtsov

Bio: 

Georgy Molodtsov is an award-winning director and producer who specializes in production of 360/VR content, as well as organizing cinematic VR events as part of film festivals that showcase 360 content. He is the co-founder of the VRability social project and Russian VR Seasons initiative. He is also the curator of the goEast film festival’s Open Frame Award and VR Scientific Festival in Sweden.

Event Date & Location: 
Title: 
VR director, GoEast VR programmer
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Lake Baikal: The Science and Spirituality of Extreme Water
Uncapitals: Pomors in 360
Event: 
Presenting Remote Sights
VR: Changing Documentary Film?

Sang-woo Kang

Bio: 

Sang-woo Kang is a filmmaker whose work spans both fiction and non-fiction, and explores the political, social, and emotional worlds of minorities in Korean society.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - Like We Are Not Here
2014 - CLEAN ME
2014 - Anmado
2010 - A Silk Letter
Event Date & Location: 
Nov 15, 21:15
Toldi
Event: 
Q&A
Verzio No.: 
Verzió16
Title: 
Director
Role: 
Guest
Film Reference: 
Kim-Gun
Event: 
Regime change in South Korea

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