Balázs Simonyi

Balazs Simonyi (1980, Budapest) is a European Film Award shortlisted filmmaker. He graduated in Literature & Film & Art Theory (Aesthetics), and is completing his PhD also in Art Theory. He works as a director and producer since 2002. His films have been screened at major festivals, from Cannes to Cracow, from Seattle to Clermont-Ferrand and Seoul. He has won several awards, like the CamerImage, the Audience Award at Asiana Film Festival, and the French Cinema Distributors' (GRAC) prize. His films has been broadcasted all over in Europe, and the short films in the USA and Japan. He is also an organizer and selector of the Budapest Short Film Festival (BuSho). Grants and fellowships: PJLF Three Rivers Residency for script writing, 2017 CineLink Sarajevo: project development, 2017 European Short Pitch: Work in Progress (Poznan), 2017 EDN Docs in Thessaloniki, 2017 Last Stop Trieste, 2017 DOK Incubator documentary workshop, 2016 Rough Cut Boutique Sarajevo, 2016 EDN Docs in Thessaloniki, 2015 EuroConnection (Clermont Ferrand), 2015 Nipkow Programm (Berlin), 2014 & 2015 Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart), 2011