Cinematographer
Hungarian DoP, graduated from the Hungarian Film Academy in 1990.
Shoot and produced several movie films, short features, documentaries, and commercials.
Founding Member and Member of Board for the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers (H.S.C.).
Graduated from the Garrett Brown Steadicam Workshop in Siena in 1989.
Finished DLA studies 2009.
Taught cinematography at the Hungarian Film Academy between 1996 and 2009.
Teaches cinematography at NOVUS Art School in Budapest since 2008.
Worked in Germany for several years after finishing the Hungarian Film Academy.
Worked also in a number of British, American, Swedish and Dutch productions.
Awards:
Best Cinematographer Prize at the Hungarian Festival of Cinematographers in 1992 for his short film „Quintola”
Grand Prize at the Hungarian Filmfestival in 1993 for his documentary on industrial city „Ozd” (d.: T. Almasi)
Best DoP title at the International Festival of Short Films in Héviz in 1996 for his „At the Edge of Worlds”
Best Documentary at the Hungarian Filmfestival in 1998, and on Camera Hungaria in 1999 for „Helpless” (d.: T.Almasi)
Bela Balazs National Award of Cinematograpy in 2004 for lifetime achievements as cinematographer and teacher at the Film Academy. 2004 Best Cinematographer in Golden Eye Cinematographer Festival was nominated for his film Legend of the sun
Major works:
Melting Point - documentary (d.: Tamas Almasi)
Doven’s Door – feature (d.: Eszter Toth)
Propitation - documentary (d.: Pal Schiffer)
The Mirror Deforms – TV drama (d.: Gabor Varkonyi) Special Recognition by MTV
Palefaced – TV film (d.: Eszter Toth)
Quintola - short feature (d.: Balazs Belafalvy)
Pathfinder - feature (d.: Eszter Toth)
Marcus's Dream – TV film, German (d.:Heinz G. Schmidt)
Lia di Putti – feature, German – d.: Gisella Schlelein
At the Edge of Worlds – short film (d.: Balazs Belafalvy) shown at the Edinburgh Festival
Dawn on No Man's Land – documentary, Norvegian (d.: Ivar Enoksen)
The Making of an Englishman – BBC-Chanel 4 TV documentary (d.: K. & A. McDonald)
Opera – short feature – d.: Balazs Belafalvy and Zsolt Haraszti
Martyres of Szigetvár – feature (d.: Z. G. Horvath)
93, Wesselényi Street – documentary – d.: Sandor Simo
Hungarian Saloon – TV – d: P.Czabarka
Helpless – documentary series – d. T. Almasi
Legend of the Sun-dance film-d: B.Belafalvy
Support your Body-music video, Music TV- German-d: Christian Schneider
Ten minutes older – documentary UK 2003- Portrait of Imre Kertesz, Author of „Sorstalansag”, Winner of 2003 Nobel Prise in Literature
Sorstalanság (Fateless) documentary with author Ivan Darvas reading out Imre Kertesz’ Nobil Prize winning book. ( d: Koltai Lajos )
Commercials, incl. VW Passat, Danone, Daewo Nexia, Gosser Bier, News, etc.
Music videos incl. Chris Norman, and Support your body for Music TV Polygram, Underworld for Music Tv England,
2 nd unit D.o.P. :
Meeting Venus - feature, English (d:Istvan Szabó, d.o.p.Lajos Koltai, with Glenn Close)
7 seconds –feature, German ( d:Klaus Maria Brandauer, d.o.p.Lajos Koltai)
Budapest by István Szabó documentary film BBC English (d: István Szabó, d.o.p.:L .Koltai)
Red Line –action feature-USA camera operator (d:I.Takács.d.o.p.Z.David with Rutger Hauer)
Sunshine – feature-USA, German, Canadian (d: Istvan Szabo, d.o.p.:L. Koltai, with R. Fiennes)
Max- feature-Canadian, English (d: MennoMeyjes, d.o.p.: L. Koltai, with John Cusack)
Dinotopia –USA- B camera operator, 2nd unit ( d:David Winning, d.o.p.Martin Kenzie)
Dinotopia –Special Treat Productions London werk documentary EPK shoot
Fateless – feature, German-Hungarian (d:Lajos Koltai, d.o.p. Gyula Pados)
Male nude –feature Hungarian camera operator ( K. Esztergalyos )
Nutcracker – feature, English second unit D.o.P. ( d:Anndrei Konchalowsky )
Agent: Bélafalvy Bt,
Address: 1051 Budapest, 5, Nador St., Hungary
Email: bbbt@t-online.hu
Tel: 20-9329-577