Réka Pigniczky

Réka Pigniczky co-founded 56 Films in Hungary in 2005. She completed her first feature-length documentary, Journey Home, at the end of 2006. It won awards in Hungary and was invited to screen at a number of international film festivals. She completed her second feature-length documentary, Inkubátor, in 2010, which saw a wide audience in Hungary through a national theatrical release as well as television broadcast, and it enjoyed wide critical acclaim after the Hungarian Film Festival. The film was also voted one of the 25 best films released in Hungary in 2010. Since then, she has completed a number of other award-winning films, shorts and a the Memory Project, a visual history archive of Hungarian refugees after WWII and 1956. Réka started out as a television news producer, working for the Associated Press Television News both in New York. She has an MA in journalism and international relations from Columbia University in New York, an MA in political science from the Central European University in Budapest. and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. Réka was born and raised in the U.S. by Hungarian refugee parents. She is a native English and Hungarian speaker and fluent in Spanish.