FILMOGRAPHY
Turkey Earthquake Survivors 2023. 7 min
Editor
Fundraising spot – Chabad Center for Jewish Life 2022. 1 min
Director, cinematographer, editor, colorist
Our Future Home – Chabad Randolph 2022. 3:19 min.
Director, cinematographer, editor, colorist
An introduction of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Randolph, NJ
Emergency Exit – Night of Literature 2021. 2 min. (Director: Balázs Wizner)
Colorist
This short fiction film served as an advertisement spot for a cultural event.
World Day of Premature Babies – Family Day 2019. 8 min.
Director, cinematographer, editor, colorist
KORE (National Association for Premature Babies) fundraising spot 2019. 2 min.
Director, cinematographer, editor, colorist
Introducing the Kindergarten of the Municipality of Budapest 2019. 3 min. and 9 min. versions
Director, cinematographer, colorist
Angyali üzlet (Angel Business) 2018. 56 min.
Director, cinematographer
Angel Business is a documentary about the financial and personal challenges of becoming one of the first angel investors during the birth of Hungary’s startup era.
- Best Project Dragon Forum Award – 05/2014 Dragon Forum 2014 Pitching at the Krakow International Film Festival
- Development support – Central-European Broker Education Foundation
- Official premiere: Budapest International Documentary Filmfestival 01/2019
- Bronze Remi Award – 52nd Worldfest Houston International Film Festival 2019
- Official selection: 5th Hungarian Film Festival in San Francisco, 11/2018, Astra Film Sibiu International Film Festival, 10/2019
Unscripted in Sarajevo 2018. 7 min.
Director, cinematographer
A short film commissioned by Compasslight for OAT Travels – featuring its “Crossroads of the Adriatic: Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Slovenia” tour through Trip Experience Leader Damir Horvat’s adventures
Apacsavar (Mr. Mom) 2009. 21 min.
Director, cinematographer
Mom goes to work every day, Dad stay at home with their one-year old son – how can work and family life be balanced? The documentary Mr. Mom is a portrait of a family facing modern dilemmas.
- Financed by: Hungarian Motion Picture Public Fund, National Cultural Fund, MONA Foundation
- Community Chioce Award. 3rd place – IMOW’s (International Museum Of Women) online exhibition Your Voices: On Motherhood, 02/2012
- Aired: M2 (Hungarian public service channel), Duna TV (Hungarian public service channel)
Zsinagógát vegyenek! (Synagogue For Sale) 2007. 47 min.
Director, cinematographer
Privatization, Irish pub, mortgage, auction – the documentary Synagogue For Sale shines a critical light on Hungary’s recent history through the fate of a 150-year old building.
- Duna Award – 4th Cinefest Miskolc – International Festival of Young Filmmakers 09/2007 – Miskolc, Hungary
- Official selection: 38th Hugarian Film Week – Budapest, 02/2007; 4thFilm.dok Hungarian – Romanian Documentary Film Festival 05/2007 – Miercurea Ciuc, Romania; “Crossroads of Europe” International Documentary Film Festival 04/2008– Lublin, Poland;
2008 Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival 10/2008 – Ashkelon, Israel - Financed by: Hungarian Motion Picture Public Fund, Ministry of Cultural Heritage
- Aired: Duna TV (Hungarian public service channel), M2 (Hungarian public service channel)
Szomszédok voltak (Once They Were Neighbours) 2005. 65 min.
Director, cinematographer
Once They Were Neighbours is a documentary about the collective memories of the non-Jewish witnesses of WWII, the so far untold stories of bystanding neighbours of the hundreds of thousands who never returned.
- Duna Television’s Special Award – 3. Cinefest Miskolc – International Festival of Young Filmmakers 09/2006 – Miskolc, Hungary
- Honorable Mention – 2006 Berkeley Film & Video Festival 11/2006 – Berkeley, CA (USA)
- Official selection: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2006 – Missoula, MT (USA); 37th Hugarian Film Week – Budapest, 06/02; 3rd Film.dok Hungarian – Romanian Documentary Film Festival 05/2006 – Miercurea Ciuc, Romania; 30th Atlanta Film Festival 06/2006 – Atlanta, GA (USA); 21st Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival – Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA) 10/2006; 2006 Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival 11/2006 – Beer Sheva, Israel; Kamera Hungária 2007 Television Program Festival 03/2007 – Pécs, Hungary
- Financed by: Hungarian Motion Picture Public Fund, Ministry of Cultural Heritage
- Aired: Duna TV (Hungarian public service channel), M2 (Hungarian public service channel)
Screw Your Courage 2000. 27 min. (Thesis project at UC Berkeley)
Director, producer, cinematographer, editor
In Screw Your Courage, young African-American high school drop-outs try to get their lives back on track with an unusual project for their impoverished, Oakland, CA neighbourhood: a performance of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
- Best Short Doc Award – 2002 DocSide Film Festival, San Antonio, TX
- Best Documentary Short Prize – 25th Atlanta Film and Video Festival, 2001
- Official Selection: New Orleans Film Festival, Carolina Film and Video Festival (Honorable Mention), Fairfax Documentary Film Festival, Firstglance4 Philadelphia, John Hopkins Film Festival, Kansas City Filmmakers’ Jubilee, Rochester International Film Festival, Mediawave International Festival of Visual Arts (Hungary)
- Aired: KQED (San Francisco’s PBS affiliate), Pacific Film Archive – Berkeley, CA
Lövészek (Cold Warriors) 2017. 57 min. (Director: Réka Pigniczky)
Cinematographer, story editor
In Rummerfield, Pennsylvania at the height of the Cold War, a handful of young American-Hungarians were ready to fight for freedom in a homeland they barely knew. Nearly half a century later, in 2016, they return to the remote, run-down farm along the Susquehanna River, to the revolution of their past – and the dreams of their youth. This is an unusual class reunion that speaks about the Iron Curtain, the Cold War and being a hyphenated American. About having two homelands – and one sense of justice.
Inkubátor (Incubator) 2009. 84. min. (Director: Réka Pigniczky)
Story editor
A documentary film about the transformation of an exile community nearly twenty years after the end of Cold War.
- Official selection: 41st Hugarian Film Week – Budapest, 02/2010
- Theatrical run: from 2010 June 3rd, Budapest
- Aired: Duna TV (Hungarian public service channel)
Money Man to the World (Dan Rather Reports, HDNet), 2009. documentary, 55 min. (Producers: James Jacoby, Jenny Nordberg)
Field producer
An investigation into how the International Monetary Fund bailed out entire countries in Eastern Europe in 2008; all with the help of U.S. taxpayer money; only to benefit wealthy Western European economies. With exclusive access to what many call the most powerful man in the world — Dominique Strauss Khan, the French socialist who run IMF at that time.
Hazatérés (Journey Home) 2007. documentary, 88 min. (Director: Réka Pigniczky)
Story editor, additional camera
Journey Home is a documentary film about two sisters who try to find out what their father did as a freedom fighter during the Hungarian revolution of 1956.
- Schiffer Pál Special Award – 39th Hungarian Film Week, Budapest, 02/2008
- Best Investigative Documentary – Film.Dok Documentary Film Festival – Miercurea Ciuc, Romania, 05/2007
- Best Hungarian Documentary Award – Dialektus International Film Festival, Budapest, 03/2008
- Official selection: 7th Hungarian Film Festival – Los Angeles, CA, 11/2007; Seattle International Film Festival, 06/2007; Lagow Film Festival, 2008
- Aired: Duna TV (Hungarian public service channel), YLE (Finnish public broadcasting service)
Harmadik találkozás (Take Three) 2004. 73 min. (Director: Tamás Almási)
Cinematographer, associate director, off-line editor
Take Three is a documentary feature about the third reunion of a high school class graduated in 1981. The different lives and life strategies of the classmates represent the entire society from the viewpoint of a generation that had been participating in the changing of the regime.
- Aired: MTV 1 (Hungarian public service channel)
Valahol otthon lenni (From Home to Home) 2003. 104 min. (Director: Tamás Almási)
Associate director, cinematographer
In most of the 20th century Hungarians lived as ethnic minorities in neighboring communist countries. Travelling was mostly forbidden after WWII, so thousands came illegally. From Home to Home tells the story of four people and their families who decided to relocate to Hungary in the late 80’s – at any price.
- Schiffer Pal Special Award – 35th Hungarian Film Week, 02/04
- Director’s Award – Film.dok Hungarian-Romanian Documentary Film Festival, Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania, 03/04
8th International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, Istambul, Turkey 03/05
Camera Hungaria Festival, Hungary 2005 - Special Jury Award – WorldFest Houston 2005
- Aired: Duna TV (Hungarian public service channel)
Resident Life (2003) Thirteen 52 min. episodes
Videojournalist (field producer, reporter and cinematographer)
Resident Life (aired on TLC) follows a team of young doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where their struggles, triumphs and teamwork are documented in a dramatic close-up fashion. From oncology to orthopedics, through ER and OB, Resident Life portrays doctors-in-training and how they cope with an extraordinarily demanding lifestyle while handling unexpected crises and crucial decisions. The series is produced by NYT Television – A New York Times Company.
Critical Hour (2002) Three 52 min. episodes
Videojournalist (field producer, reporter and cinematographer)
Critical Hour is a documentary series about the most important period – the “golden hour” – of a sick or injured person’s medical care (aired on Discovery Health channel). The series is produced by NYT Television – A New York Times Company.
Trauma: Life in the E. R. (2001 – 2002) Six 52 min. episodes
Videojournalist (field producer, reporter and cinematographer)
Trauma: Life in the E. R. is a documentary series that takes viewers behind the scenes into emergency rooms across America (aired on cable channel TLC). The series is produced by NYT Television – A New York Times Company.
Women Docs (2001) Two 52 min. episodes
Videojournalist (field producer, reporter and cinematographer)
Women Docs is a documentary series about female doctors aired on Lifetime channel. The series is produced by True Entertainment.
Forever Fourteen (2000) 24 min. (Thesis project at UC Berkeley – Director, producer, editor: Kelly St. John)
Associate producer, cinematographer
Forever Fourteen is the story of 14-year-old Wendy Osborn’s disappearance and the seven years it took to solve her murder, told by a unique storyteller: a filmmaker who played a role in finding her killer.
- National Emmy Award for outstanding informational long-form programming, 2002
- First Prize – Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ 2001 College Television Awards (“Student Emmy”)
- Official Selection – Kodak’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at 2001 Cannes Film Festival