JÁNOS SZÁSZ (1958)

Resume

Film and theatre director. Member of the European Film Academy. Member of the Director’s Guild of America. Director of the Institute for the Advanced Theatre Training in Harvard, Boston, Cambridge. Teacher in the Theatre and Film Academy of Budapest, teaching film-direction, and teaching in the Actor’s master school.

He finished the Budapest State Theatre and Film Academy as theatre and film story-editor & writer, later he finished the film director’s faculty. Graduated as a film director in 1987.

He made documentaries and fictions for the Hungarian State Television.

Directed numerous theatrical plays in Hungary and in the USA to include Weiss: Marat/Sade, Williams: Streetcar Named Desire, Brecht: Mother Courage, Brecht: Baal, Chekhov: Uncle Vania, Ibsen: The Ghosts.

In 1998 he was selected by the Sundance Film Festival and the Daily Variety to be one of the ten upcoming film directors of the world.

Filmography

2002 Eyes of the HOLOCAUST (part of Broken Silence project) documentary

Produced by James Mall

Executive producer Steven Spielberg

1998 THE FUNERAL short feature

Krakow - Special Prize of the Jury

Antalya - The Golden Orange for the best feature film

1997 WITMAN BOYS feature

Cannes - Un Certain Regard, Selection Officiel

Moscow Filmfestival – The Best director

Moscow Filmfestival - F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I. Prize

Hungarian entry for the Oscar ’s

Ghent Filmfestival – Grand Prix

Bruxelles - Prix L’Age d’Or

Chicago - Silver Hugo

Budapest Filmweek - Foreign critic’s Gene Moskowitz Prize

Tromso, Norway - Grand Prix, the Audience’s Pize

1994 WOYZECK feature

European Film Academy, Berlin – Felix Prize as Young European Film of the Year

Hungarian entry for the Oscar’s

Chicago – Gold Plaque

Strasbourg – Grand Prix

Thessaloniki – Best Director

Bergamo – Silver Rose

Sochi - F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I.

Budapest Filmweek - Grand Prix and Foreign Critic’s Gene Moskowitz Prize

1990 DON’T DISTURB feature

Bogotá - Best Director

Bratislava - Best Foreign Film