Sándor Csoma is a film director and screenwriter. His short films, Tabula rasa (2015) and Nothing Happened (2017) were shown at several international festivals and received recognition. His work Casting, made in 2019, was awarded nearly thirty prizes worldwide, won the film critics' prize in Hungary, and was chosen as the best short film of the year by the members of the Hungarian Film Academy. In 2020, his work was recognized with the Sándor Sára Award.
His first feature film, Heights and Depths, received support from the Incubator Program of the National Film Institute, presents the mourning process of the wife of mountaineer Zsolt Erőss. The film was screened with great success in Hungary and in Romania as well. It was awarded the Best Debut Film and Best Cinematography awards of 2022 by the film critics.
He teaches filmmaking at MATE's Rippl-Rónai Art Institute and at the Babeș-Bolyai University.
Veres Attila (assistant director)
He has been working in the film industry for more than ten years as an assistant director and has worked on numerous co-productions and Hungarian films, ranging from low budget films to big budget American productions. His most recent feature film projects include Larry, directed by Szilárd Bernáth and Gran Turismo, directed by Neill Blomkamp.
Bántó Csaba (director of photography)
Director of photography. He obtained a degree in cinematography at Sapientia University, and then a master's degree at the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest. In addition to several documentaries and television films, as well as festival-favorite short films (e.g. Two Lines, Welcome, Living Fragment), he was the director of photography for It's Not The Time of My Life, Treasure City and Give Me Shelter. He himself participated in the camp several times as a member of the DoP group, but this year he will be the co-mentor of the group for the ninth time.
Czakó Judit (editors)
Three-time Arany Olló and Béla Balázs award-winning editor. She was born in 1977 in Budapest. In high school, she majored in mass communication and studied photography, journalism and editing. It was here that she first encountered editing work, and already at the age of 16 she decided to either become a math teacher or a film editor. She often collaborates with Zsombor Dyga, Csaba Bollók, László Csáki, Károly Ujj Mészáros and György Pálfi. She is also known as the editor of several award-winning animated films. Most recently, she worked on the editing of the animation White Plastic Sky, which was included in the competition program of the Berlinale.
She worked as an editor in the films Question in Details, Couch Surf, Liza, the Fox-Fairy and Holy Dilemma.
Dunai László (editors)
Várhegyi Rudolf (sound engineers)
Sound engineer, sound designer. He has been working in film sound production since 1983, initially as an employee of the film studio, later as an independent contractor. He has gone through the entire process of film sound production, having been a cableman, boom operator, sound recorder, studio technician, etc. He is a location or post-production sound engineer for numerous feature films, short films, television productions, commercials, and documentaries. Since 2007, he has been regularly present at film camps and workshops. Schools where he has taught courses include: Budapest College of Communication, Dunaversitas, Polifilm Workshop, Sapientia EMTE, Werk Academy. Most recently, we could hear about him as the sound master of the bittersweet comedy All About the Levkoviches, the documentary Agent of Happiness, and the nature film My Sweden – A Changing Wilderness.
Székely Tamás (sound engineer)
Born in Oradea, he decided as a teenager that he wanted to be a sound engineer. As a student of electrical engineering at the Budapest Technical College, he applied for an internship at the R.D.I. Studio, where he worked for six years. Over the years, he has worked on more than 40 productions, including the film Katalin Varga, for which his sound team was awarded a Silver Bear. As a member of the sound production team for Son of Saul, he was awarded a Golden Reel. Recently, he worked on the Golden Bear-winning and Oscar-nominated film On Body and Soul, Márta Mészáros' Aurora Borealis: Northern Light, and celebrated the FIPRESCI award for Zsófia Szilágyi's One Day at Cannes. Last year was largely spent in the "company" of TheInformer and the upcoming American sci-fi Slingshot.
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