Gyula Gazdag

About Gyula

• Professor

Biography

Writer and Director. Numerous feature films include A Hungarian Fairy Tale, winner of Best Feature Film of the Year of the Hungarian Film Critics and screened at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Stand Off, winner of a Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Festival, Lost Illusions, winner of Best Screenplay at the Hungarian Film Week, Swap, Singing on the Treadmill, which was banned in Hungary for ten years and The Whistling Cobblestone, which was banned from foreign exhibition for 12 years. Banquet, Package Tour and The Resolution, which was named one of the 100 best documentaries of all time by the International Documentary Association. He has directed, among others, Candide, The Tempest, and Tom Jones for the stage. He serves as the Artistic Director of the Sundance Filmmakers Lab.