Council of the Hungarian Film Week
András Muhi
Director of the Film Week, producer
As the head of Inforg Studio, I began my producing career with short films, and we first appeared at the 2000 Hungarian Film Week, where Golden Bird (directed by István Szaladják) and uristen@menny.hu (directed by Zsolt Végh, Angéla Stefanovics, and Zoltán Kálmánchelyi) won the shared Grand Prize. In that year’s competition of 25 films, we also had three additional short films in the program. It was, without doubt, a striking debut. As a producer, I have always been primarily interested in discovering new talent. The momentum continued. In the following years, Inforg’s short films awarded at the Film Week included: Talking Heads (Bence Fliegauf), Between 5 and 6 (Lehel Oláh), The Smallest Film About the Greatest Hungarian (Végh–Stefanovics–Kálmánchelyi), Lemon Head (Viktor Bodó), Grenades (Péter Politzer), Little Apocrypha No. 1 (Kornél Mundruczó), Before Dawn (Bálint Kenyeres), Gap Film (Sándor Kardos), Ördögtérgye (Róbert Lakatos), Execution (Tamás Buvári), With a Little Patience (László Nemes Jeles), and Cuckoo (Cecília Felméri). In the catalogue of the 45th Hungarian Film Week, the focus will be on Inforg Studio’s documentary films, followed by our feature films in the catalogue of the 46th Film Week…
Tamás Liszka
CEO of Budapest Film
Head of Budapest Film, the company operating six classic cinemas in the Hungarian capital. He completed his studies at Eötvös Loránd University (Faculty of Humanities, majoring in Philosophy and Film Theory), at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, and at the Doctoral School of the University of Theatre and Film Arts. He is the founder of Anilogue, Budapest’s longest-running international film festival, and teaches at the Animation and Media Design Department of Budapest Metropolitan University.
Tamás Csutak
producer
His involvement in the Hungarian film industry began in 1992, when he became the head of Teleshop Ltd., a company specializing in content production for cable and local television channels. Between 1994 and 2002, he worked as a senior executive at a leading independent local pension fund and a major insurance brokerage firm. Throughout this period, Tamás remained closely connected to the entertainment industry, providing financial consultancy services to various production companies. In 2002, Tamás returned fully to the film sector as the majority owner and managing director of Abacus. He gained unique experience through his significant role in shaping the new Hungarian film funding system. Drawing on the expertise he has accumulated over the years, Abacus has focused – alongside its advisory activities – on providing full accounting services and other administrative solutions for both domestic and international film productions shooting in Hungary. Tamás has also been a key member of the advisory team to the Hungarian Government, successfully contributing to the extension of EU approval for the national film support scheme. In addition to these activities, in recent years he has supported the creation of several Hungarian and international co-productions as a co-producer or executive producer.
Gábor Kovács
producer
He spent many years living in India, where his love for film began, fascinated by three-hour Indian movies and the already existing big air-conditioned cinemas. He first entered the film world in Hungary by using his English skills, later becoming involved in professional work at Mafilm International Studio (Escape to Victory, Children’s War, For Those I Loved, The Phantom of the Opera). Later, he joined Novofilm, founded by Pál Sándor, the first Hungarian film production company. In the 1990s, he co-founded Filmpartners Ltd. with Iván Kapitány and Buda Gulyás. He later continued independently and became a key figure in the Hungarian advertising film market. This period also marked the beginning of his feature-film career: Glass Tiger, Black Brush, Hunky Blues, White Palms, My Wife’s Romance, Bibliothèque Pascal, Adventurers, To the Best of My Knowledge, Frozen Eyes, One Day, among others. He is a Balázs Béla Award-winning Hungarian film producer.
Ágnes Pataki
producer
Her first encounter with cinema came in 1970, when she appeared in a small role in Pál Sándor’s film Love Emilia Ódor. Her true film career as a producer began with the 2000 production Glass Tiger, which later grew into a trilogy. Together with her husband, Gábor Kovács, she has been behind numerous films, including Black Brush, Hunky Blues, White Palms, My Wife’s Romance, Bibliothèque Pascal, Mirage, Adventurers, To the Best of My Knowledge, One Day, and Frozen Eyes. She has also participated as a co-producer in several films, most recently Fekete pont. She has twice been listed among the 50 most influential women in Hungary by Forbes Magazine. In 2012, she received the Balázs Béla Award in recognition of her work.
