Cinematography and Animation – Media Patronage Films Among the Best
Films sponsored by the Media Council excelled at two award ceremonies over the weekend. Prizes were awarded on Friday, 23 June at the Aranyszem Cinematography Competition (ARRIszem), and on Sunday, 25 June at the Kecskemét Animation Film Festival. Réka Bucsi’s LOVE won two prizes at KAFF, Hunor was selected as the best tv series and Balkon (Balcony) won the Hungarian Film Critics Award at the animation festival. Awarded cinematographers included Zoltán Dévényi for Szürke Senkik (Grey Nobodies), Zoltán Pataki for the circus film, and Zsolt Sásdi for the best nonfiction film.
An army of Media Patronage films went to battle at KAFF and they did not return empty-handed. The festival nominees included 42 films sponsored by the Media Council via the Gyula Macskássy and Attila Dargay tenders. These nominees measured up to expectations and won seven prizes:
- Best Short Film: LOVE (director: Réka Bucsi)
- Best tv series: Hunor (directors: Béla Klingl and Árpád Koós)
- Best Visual Language: Egér (Little Mouse) (director: Ervin B. Nagy)
- Best Script: Kojot és a sápadtarcú (Coyote and the Wasichu) (director: Áron Gauder)
- Hungarian Film Critics Award: Balkon (Balcony) (director: Dávid Dell’Edera)
- Shared Student Jury’s Award: LOVE (director: Réka Bucsi)
- MTVA Special Award: Hoppi mesék (Hoppi Tales) / Az emlékezés ünnepe (The Holiday of Commemoration) (director: Ferenc Rófusz)
NMHH’s Media Council also offered prizes to the festival, so the best short film’s (LOVE) and the best TV show’s (Hunor) creators received HUF 1.5 million each thanks to the association.
Other Media Patronage nominees at KAFF:
- A kozmosz nagykövetei (Ambassadors of the Cosmos) (director: Béla Klingl)
- Ahány király, annyi mese (As Many Tales As Kings) / A könyvgyűjtő király (The King Who Collected Books) (director: Bella Szederkényi)
- Arcmás (Imago) (director: Marcell Jankovics)
- Átjáró Másvárosba (Door to Othertown) (director: Bálint Farkas Gelley)
- Az Árpádok emlékezete (In Memory of the Árpád House) / A keresztesek Magyarországon (The Crusaders in Hungary) (director: Marcell Jankovics)
- Bab Berci és a tünkány vagy kicsoda (Bertie Bean and the Fairitch (or Whatever)) (director: Márton Kovács)
- Balansz (Balance) (director: Gábor Ulrich)
- Borka és a varázsruha (Borka and the Magic Dress) / Borka fél a sötétben; Meghalt a Dédi (Borka is Afraid of the Dark; Great Granny is Dead) (director: Beáta Gurmai)
- Boxi / Forgalmi dugó; Zöldben (Traffic Jam; In the Nature) (director: Béla Klingl)
- Candide / Kéz- és lábtörést, Candide! (A Lesson in National Defense) (director: Zsuzsanna Kreif)
- Csupipupi / A cipőrágcsa (Shoe Cheww) (director: Zoltán Lehotay)
- Egy komisz kislány naplója (Diary of a Wicked Girl) / Hurrá, nyaralok! (Cheers on Holiday!); Mr. Barnum cirkusza (Mr Barnum’s Circus); (director: Líviusz Gyulai)
- Egy kupac kufli (A Heap of Crosconts) / Egy kupac az elhagyatott réten (A Heap in the Empty Field); Sose együnk gombát reggelire (Never Eat Mushrooms for Breakfast) (directors: Szabolcs Pálfy and Kristóf Jurik)
- Hajótöröttek (Castaways) (director: Péter Szeiler)
- Hát (m)ilyenek a… (What are the…) / ... kutyák (…dogs like?); oroszlánok (…lions like?) (director: Csaba Szórádi)
- Istók (director: Roland Tóth)
- Kippkopp a fűben (Kippkopp in the Grass) (director: Szilvia Fabók)
- Kópék (Seniors Gone Rogue) (director: Ildi Szabó)
- Kormos mesék (Kormos Tales) / Fázó rókafiak (The Shivering Fox Cubs) (director: Zsolt Richly)
- Lengemesék (Aerytales) (director: Zsolt Pálfi)
- Luther Márton élete (The Life of Martin Luther) / Minden eladó (Everything for Sale) (director: Zsolt Richly)
- Nagyi meséi (Granny’s Tales) / Meló munkát keres (Meló’s Looking for a Job); Rinya nagy sétája (The Great Walk of Panick) (directors: László Hegedűs 2 and Hanna Léna Hegedűs)
- Néhány szó (Just a Few Words) (director: László Csáki)
- Paradicsomleves betűtésztával (Tomato Soup with Pasta Letters) / Kakaós csiga (Chocolate Roll); Tökfőzelék (Pumpkin Dish) (director: Bálint Benkovics)
- Second Hand (director: Noémi Barkóczi)
- Sina és Kóré (Sina and Kóré) (director: Emil Goodman)
- Superbia (director: Luca Tóth)
- Szőrmók ovi (Bugaboo Garten) (director: Zoltán Miklósy)
- Szupermalac és Űrpatkány (Superpig and Spacerat) / Cukibolygó (Cutieplanet); A mikulás akció (The Santa-action) (director: Csaba Máli)
- Ungvár (director: Zoltán Áprily)
- Városi legendák (Urban Legends) / Örökzöld nagypapa (Evergreen Grandpa); Veronika néni (Auntie Veronica) (director: Katalin Glaser)
- Világi mesék (World Tales) / A farkas hálája (The Grateful Wolf); Az ostoba Matjus (The Silly Matjus) (director: Ferenc Cakó)
- Világnak virága, virágnak világa (Flower of the World, World of the Flower) (director: Dóra Keresztes)
- Virágnyelv (Afternoon) (director: Katalin Glaser)
- Volt egyszer egy kertész (The Gardener) (director: Borbála Eszter Tompa)
- Wireless (director: Szandra Pataki)
Aranyszem Cinematographer Competition (ARRIszem)
This year NMHH’s Media Council also sponsored the competition of Hungarian cinematographers with a total of HUF 2 million awarded in 5 categories (documentaries, featurettes, nature films, television films and nonfiction films). 16 nominees and 3 winners in the competition were sponsored by the Hungarian Media Patronage Programme:
- Documentary: Mi ez a Cirkusz? (Circus) (cinematographer: Ádám Pataki, director: Glória Halász)
- Nonfiction films: Budapest Inferno – A Molnár János-barlang titka (Budapest Inferno – The Secret of the János Molnár cave) (cinematographer: Zsolt Sásdi, director: Balázs Lerner)
- Television films: Szürke senkik (Grey Nobodies) (cinematographer: Zoltán Dévényi, director: István Kovács)
It was also announced at the award ceremony that HSC nominated two Hungarian films in the box office category of the IMAGO cinematographer competition (competition of the European society of cinematographers). Presented at a number of festivals, winner of the Hungarian Film Award and sponsored by the Media Council, Félvilág (Demimonde) was the cinematographic work of András Nagy. The other nominee is A martfűi rém (Strangled) by Gábor Szabó.
Other Patronage Programme nominees at ARRIszem:
- Én és a hegedűm (Me and My Violin) (cinematographer: Róbert Árpád Lakatos, director: Lóránd Boros)
- A lehetetlen határán (The Edge of Impossible) (cinematographer: Gergely Vass, director: Tamás Yvan Topolánszky)
- A virtuóz (The Virtuoso) (cinematographer: János Vecsernyés HSC, director: Attila Kékesi)
- A Lipicai (The Lipizzaner) (cinematographer: András Pintér, director: András Pintér)
- A Kárpátok bércei (The Waves of the Carpathians) (cinematographer: Dávid Schödl, director: Zoltán Moys)
- Ebéd előtt (Before Lunch) (cinematographer: Albert Czomba, director: Simon Szabó)
- A Levelek (The Letters) (cinematographer: Zoltán Dévényi, director: Teréz Irén Koncz)
- Grand Prix (cinematographer: Gábor Garai, director: Bálint Dániel Sós)
- Kockaember (Cubeman) (cinematographer: Dávid Hartung, director: Linda Dombrovszky)
- Van egy határ (Operation Stone) (cinematographer: Gábor Marosi, director: Barnabás Tóth)
- Répa (The Carrot) (cinematographer: György Réder HSC, director: Balázs Lengyel)
- Indián (Native American) (cinematographer: Balázs Révész, director: Balázs Simonyi)
- Wellness (cinematographer: Gábor Tausz, director: Virág Szabó)
We congratulate the nominees and the award winners of these festivals and wish similar successful achievements in their future professional endeavours.