Attila Szász (born October 23, 1972, in

Szolnok Szolnok (; also known by #Name and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, in the heart of the Great Hungarian ...

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) is a director and writer, known for ''

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'', '' The Ambassador to Bern'' and '' Eternal Winter''. He has 2 children: Vilmos Szász (born December 9, 2002 in

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) and Albert Szász (born May 17, 2007, in

)

Education and early career

Szász graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest in 1996. He has worked as a

film critic Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findin ...

, a

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

and founded a

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. In 2002, he became editor-in-chief of Hungarian movie magazine Vox but quit the same year to become a director.

Accolades

He has won Best Director awards at film festivals in

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and

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among others.

References

External links

Official website
* Hungarian film directors 1972 births Hungarian caricaturists People from Szolnok 21st-century Hungarian screenwriters Hungarian male writers Living people {{Hungary-film-director-stub