Klára Muhi is a filmmaker, scriptwriter and film aesthete. She has wrote and directed several documentaries and fiction films.
András Dér is a freelance filmmaker and theatre director. He has made several documentaries, short and feature-length fiction films, and films for television. He is an assistant professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, where he also teaches film. He was awarded the Béla Balázs and Silver Pen prize.
Andrius Lekavičius is a multimedia storyteller directing commercial and non-commercial audiovisual productions. His latest animated documentary, Delta Zoo, was screened in cinemas across Lithuania and at festivals around the world. Growing up in the 1990s, his creative focus is on this period of essential change.
South African director Nicole Schafer has lived in Malawi, where she produced award-winning stories for Reuters’ pan-African magazine show, Africa Journal. Schafer is the director of the production company, Thinking Strings Media. She has an MFA degree in Film and Television Production from the University of Cape Town.
Daniel Lambo is a filmmaker from Belgium. He started his career as a writer for theater, television and cinema. As a director, Lambo shifted his attention towards social themes. His renewed approach to filmmaking—both intuitive and socially engaged—inspired him to start his own production company, Lambo Films.
Glória Halász studied Film and Media Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Several of her documentaries have been distributed internationally and won important prizes, including the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival). She has also produced numerous video clips and commercials.
Born in France, Philippe Bellaiche is an award-winning cinematographer. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière and the Sorbonne, Bellaiche, a cinematography lecturer and master-class instructor, received the Israel Cinema Arts Award in 2013.
Anikó Mária Nagy graduated as a broadcast director from the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest, in 2004. She worked as an art director for Film.dok, a Hungarian-Romanian documentary film festival between 2005 and 2007, and has directed for Duna Television.
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.
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.
