GÁBOR GARAMI, Producer-managing director

Born in 1952, in Budapest. After he had finished his studies on the Hungarian University of Theatre and Film as a producer, he continued his studies on the East -West producer seminar in London.
He is one of the founders of the Association of Independent Producers in Hungary.

He was working in MAFILM untill 1991 as a line producer.


Distinctions:
In September, 1999 he was awarded by UNESCO – PARIS
In 2005, the Hungarian Film Festival awarded him as the producer of A Miracle in Krakow and of Who the Hell is Bonnie and Clyde (Best Producer)

Most important works:
The films of Márta Mészáros, he the produced 7 films from 1979 until 1989, among them French-Hungarian co-productions .

 

FEATURE FILMs:
(during his work at MAFILM)
With the directors:
János Dömölky, Tamás Almási, András Lányi, Pál Schiffer, András Monory M, and
Franklin Shaffner : Thaliafilm -London " Lionheart "

From 1991, as an independent producer.:
Svetlana Druzsenina ( MOSFILM) Trip of the winters 1991
Cristopher Morahan ( BBC Dramatic ) Ashenden 1992

with Peter Bacsó
(Having many International and Hungarian prises)
Stalin's fiancée 1991
Live show 1993
Witness again 1994
Little Romulus
/ 6 parts for the television 1993
Hallo Doctor
/ 6 parts for the television 1996
Gulls and Gangsters 1996
Tiger-striped/TV/ 1998
Smouldering cigarette 2000

with Zsolt Kézdi- Kovács
(Member of the committee of directors of EU )
Letters from Transylvania I-II 1994 (Copr. XY Zebra France )

with János Zsombolyai
On death row 1990
Prise " Béla Balázs " (Price for best actor)
Kovács Éva Story and 1992
Székely-"gate" 1993
(TV series France co producer: Son et Lumiere)
Pistachio 1995
(Price of best actress )

with Philippe de Broca
ZOO of the Paris 1994
(France-Hungarian co production)

with Sándor Sára
The accusation 1995
Prise Kossuth,

with Róbert Koltai
(actor-director)
Mr. Teacher "Ámbár" 1998.
May Day, May Hem 2001.

with Ferenc András
Salmons of the River St Lorenz
(Hungarian-Italian co production) 2003

with Diana Groó
Miracle in Krakow 2004.
(Hungarian-Polish copr.)

with Krisztina Deák
Who the Hell Are Bonnie and Clyde? 2004.
( Hungarian -France co production)

with Miklós Jancsó
Ed's Eaten the Elevenses 2006

with Tamás Almási
Mario, the Magician 2008
(Silver Remi Award)

with Endre Hules
The Maiden Danced to Death 2010 (under production)
the project was awarded with the support of Eurimages
(Hungarian-Slovenian-Canadian co-production)

 

Short feature films:

with Diana Groó
"Wild imagination" (3x16sec.) 2003
( Renoir, Bruegel, Rousseau –Dream's )
"Wild imagination" 25 sec
Gulácsy's dream's 2006

With Krisztina Esztergályos
Variations 2009 (received a Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, Simó Sándor prise at Tirgu Mures, Romania, etc.)

 

Documentary films:
Sára Szakács 6 films-sociography ( by Hungaryan
writers, actors and histories)
Gábor Xantus 16 films-sociography.
Sándor Simó Memory for Tibor Méray (writer).
Éva Pataki "Babysitters "
János Szikora "Late Encounter "
Dávid Kara Somfai-András Kolman "The living spirit"
Groó Diana "Ways"

 

Television
ALFA TV - THE COOPERATION CHANNEL PILOT TRANSMISSION
/Satellite programme 8.5 hours in four languages,
with cooperation of 21 European countries/

 

Organisation of Cultural events:
Hungarian Film week-Managing director and producer / since 1981, produced 17 festival,/
Danube Film Festival / 1995/
Summer Theatre in Tihany ( concerts, opera, and theatre performances, since 1995 every year)
International Scientific Film Festival – Budapest /1999/
IV.- VI. International ,,Masterclass" of DOP Students 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
/ Master teachers: Vilmos Zsigmond (winner of an Academy Award) and Laszló Kovács
The Bolyai prise TV programme