Graduated as film and television director at the Hungarian Academy
of Film and Drama, studied filmmaking in the United States, made shorts at the legendary Béla Balázs Stúdió in the 1990’s. His features earned many home and international prizes, among them „the European Discovery of the Year” (2007).
In 2019, two of his works, Silent Years and Iska’s Journey have been selected as "Basic Hungarian movies" (by the National Film Archive) while his recent feature project, Maze-In-Lake is being developed by Zentropa Belgium. A permanent teacher at Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, a core tutor at Midpoint Central-European Scriptwriting Center, Praha, a visiting professor at DFFB, Berlin, a Creative Advisor at RAWI Screenwriters Lab, Jordan, he is leading workshops worldwide in screenwriting, independent and analogue filmmaking.
