Eszter Zakariás

Eszter is a IATSE 871 Script Supervisor and Actress from Hungary, with a diverse entertainment industry background. She made the move to the US three times in her life and has been working on both sides of the camera for over 15 years in Film/TV, and Commercial Production. As a Script Supervisor in the last years her most exciting credits include double-days on "The Fix", "Station 19", working on features like "LA Rush" with Elijah Wood, "Darkness Falls" with Shawn Ashmore, "Death of a Telemarketer" (Lamorne Morris, Jackie Earle Hayley), award-winning web series "Little Italy", and "First Love", and shorts like "Boomerang" (Mackenzie Davis). Eszter enjoys working on commercials, like promos for the Disney Channel, commercials for Walmart, Sony Playstation, State Farm, Happy Socks etc. She is also highly experienced as a translator, and completed work on numerous feature scripts through the years, as well as most recently subtitling translation for a feature documentary. (Desmond Child: "Two"). Eszter was a an Acting/Performance Training major at Loyola Marymount University (B.A.). After her LMU years, she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Hungary's English-speaking theater company, Merlin Theater. She continued her acting work in foreign productions and national commercials in Budapest. Some years later, she received a scholarship and completed her MA. in Professional Writing/Screenwriting from USC. Over ten years, she managed the Hungarian competition of the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Prize, founded by RKO Pictures, helping discover many emerging screenwriters. She was Editor of the Hungarian Producer's Magazine and had the opportunity to assist acclaimed Hollywood Still Photographer, Peter Sorel on such films as "Frida", and "Louis" also featuring legendary Cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond. Other highlights included work as an interpreter on Istvan Szabo's "Sunshine" (Ralph Fiennes, William Hurt) and Underworld. From 2003-2009 Eszter joined her then partner, Gabor Lepes (Award-winning Music Producer, Composer and Sound Engineer) as a Creative Producer for the award-winning electro-ethno music group, Balkan Fanatik. The band played many big festivals each year and opened for Jethro Tull, Public Enemy, TGU and Prodigy. Eszter has appeared in many of their hit music videos such as "Love Gone Wrong", "Egyedem Begyedem", "Csinald, csinald!". The work with this music group was very close to Eszter's heart and she is extremely proud of their continuous success to this day.