Ferenc Varsányi

He has been directing and writing screenplays for over forty years, in both animation and live action. He has made a total of five feature-length feature films, nearly one hundred and fifty episodes of TV series, commercials, video clips, documentaries and educational films, and has written more than one hundred screenplays.

He has worked in all the major animation studios in Hungary, Hungarian Television, an Australian studio, two American studios, a South Korean studio, a Taiwanese studio, an Indian studio and an Arab studio. He is the only Hungarian EMMY award-winning director. He has taught at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, the Metropolitan University and the MOME Animation Department.

He currently works for the Film Institute as a member of the Jury, and since September 2023 he is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the NKA Film Board, the Hungarian Film Academy and the Hungarian Academy of Arts.

János Lerner (Budapest, 1952) nature filmmaker

After graduating as a geographer and cartographer, he worked as a university lecturer at the Department of Cartography of ELTE for two decades.

As a tour operator, he has decades of experience in ecotourism/tourism and has worked in the field of nature conservation in Hungary. Since 1998 he has been an editor of science educational films for Spektrum Television. In 2008, he joined the team of the Természetfilm.hu Scientific Film Workshop/Film Jungle as director, editor, script and scriptwriter.

He has directed, scripted and written more than 50 educational nature and documentary films and film series, and is the author or co-author of about 20 educational books on geography.

Zoltán Dragon

Zoltán Dragon is an associate professor at the Department of American Studies, University of Szeged, and a photographer. His research interests include digital culture, theory of photography, film theory, film adaptation, and theoretical psychoanalysis.

His books include The Spectral Body: Aspects of the Cinematic Oeuvre of István Szabó (2006), Encounters of the Filmic Kind: Guidebook to Film Theories (with Réka M. Cristian, 2008), and Tennessee Williams Goes to Hollywood or the Dialogue of Drama and Film (2011).