Tamás Almási

Tamás Almási is one of the most well known Hungarian documentary film makers. He has worked as an assistant director with István Szabó, Miklós Jancsó, and Zoltán Fábri. He graduated from Academy of Film and Theatre of Budapest in 1979. He started his career as a feature film director, which has had a very important impact on his documentaries. His films are all drama centered and he uses strong emotional effects in them. So far he has made more than forty full-length documentaries and some feature films, which have been screened at a number of highly prestigious festivals in Europe and overseas earning him numerous awards. His films have been broadcast in almost forty countries. Tamás Almási is also a professor at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, the leader of the documentary film making MA program and also of the Hungarian part of the international MA program DocNomads.