Early life and education
Gábor Fabricius was born in Budapest. He graduated from the Eötvös József Gimnázium, Budapest, in 1994. Later he continued his studies and in 2003 was awarded his diploma in media design fromCareer
In 1997 Fabricius founded the creative agency Republic Group. He was the media designer for the new company and directed several commercials himself. As a media designer and creative director, Fabricius and his company have won awards such as the Golden Media Lion at theFilms
Fabricius started making short films in 2006. That year he made his first short film ''Live'', in connection with the Sziget Festival, Sziget Fesztivál. In the same year, he wrote and directed his short film Grown Ups (Felnőttek), which was screened at the Naoussa International Film Festival in Greece. Fabricius’ short film Bianka was released in 2012, reflecting the tensions of the Roma issue in Hungary at the time. A short film about evictions, called Skinner (Sintér), which is set against the backdrop of the local underworld and the housing mafia followed in 2014. Skinner had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film also presented in 2015 at the Vilnius International Film Festival in Lithuania, the Cork International Film Festival in Ireland, the Vukovar Film Festival in Croatia and the Raindance Film Festival in London. The film later won Magyar Média Alap's ''Huszárik Zoltán Award'' in 2015. Fabricius made his short film Dialogue (Dialógus) in 2016, which deals with the issue of migration. The film was screened in the Zurich Film Festival, Zurich International Film Festival in the "Neue Welt Sicht Ungarn" section. It was subsequently included in the CinEast Film Festival in Luxembourg and the Mumbai International Film Festival in India, as well as the FabioFest Film Festival in the Czech Republic. Dialogue made its US debut at the Sacramento Film Festival, 2018 Sacramento Film Festival.Erasing Frank
Fabricius' first feature film, Erasing Frank (Eltörölni Frankot), completed in 2021, is a Political sociology, socio-political drama. Set behind the Iron Curtain of 1983 Budapest, Eastern Europe, the film follows Frank, a songwriter and singer of a banned Punk rock, punk band, who, as a representative of his generation, speaks out against the Totalitarianism, totalitarian regime and subsequently has to flee from Revenge, retaliation. The film was produced by Otherside Stories and supported by National Film Institute Hungary, National Film Institute (NFI). Erasing Frank was selected by the Venice International Film Critics to have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2021. At the film festival, Fabricius fetched the award for Innovation, most innovative film by the International Critics' Academy of Venice Biennale. In their tributes at the Venice awards ceremony, the foreign critics stressed that in making their decision they had judged the movie to be a film with a special atmosphere, a significant and moving work. As Screen International, Screendaily's review stated, „Announces the arrival of Fabricius as a notable new talent in Hungarian cinema. It's a supremely confident piece of filmmaking which won the Circolo del Cinema di Verona Award for innovation after its premiere in Venice's Critics Week." The Academy also awarded the International Starlight Cinema Award to Benjamin Fuchs, the protagonist in Fabricius' award-winning film, for the most powerful and memorable performance, making him the first Hungarian actor to receive this honour. While the film was screened in black and white at the Venice world debut as well as later in the Art film, art cinema networks, a Color photography, color version of the film had been released in traditional cinemas. The Hungarian premiere date was October 7, 2021. The year following, in 2022, Erasing Frank was awarded a Special Jury Award at the Pune International Film Festival in India. The film also won the Grand Jury Fiction Award, Winners Movies that Matters Festival 2022 in Netherlands, the Netherlands.Screenplays
As a screenwriter Fabricius has also written the screenplays for the films Skinner, Dialogue and Erasing Frank. He completed the script for Erasing Frank in 2018, two years before the film started shooting, and participated in several international film festival's screenwriting competitions, including Sarajevo, Karlovy Vary, and Vienna, where he was awarded a podium too.Books
In 2009, Fabricius published his first Short story, short stories in his book Puha Neon Fejlövés (Soft Neon Headshot), in which he looks at the causes of the loss of values of the Hungarian upper class. His second book, Másik bolygó (Another Planet) debuted in 2016. It is about young Hungarians who hitchhike to the West after the fall of communism.References