Károly Ujj Mészáros

Károly Ujj Mészáros Keszthely April 23 1968 Hungarian advertising and film director screenwriter film producer His father Károly Ujj Mészáros was a plant breeder and assistant professor at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Keszthely He completed his higher education between 1987 and 1992 at the Budapest University of Economics majoring in foreign trade His interest had already turned halfway through the film In 1994 he shot his first short film Attila the Clown with the support of Balázs Béla Stúdió In London he attended the training of the London Drama School STAR TEK associates and since 1999 he has worked as a freelance producer making commercials and directing With his films he took part in many international and domestic festivals and won prizes At the Hungarian Film Festival for example he won the main prize with his lyricalabsurd short film The Rubber Man he received the jurys special prize for his experimental film The House and in 2009 at the 40th film festival he won Alenas Journey which was praised at both the Sarajevo and Berlin film festivals received the award for the best short film In November 2011 his first theatrical production András Maros play Suspicious Movements was presented at the Hungarian Theater in Pest which ran for two years And on September 14 2018 the Centrál Színház will present Joannah Tinceys adaptation of Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice translated by György Baráthy under the title Pride and Prejudice for two actors In the production of his first feature film Liza the fox fairy he received help from the Workshop of the Cinéfondation section of the Cannes festival The basic idea of the work was given by Zsolt Pozsgais play Liselotte and the May but at a Japanese film festival the story was supplemented with the motif of the fox fairy In the summer of 2012 he shot the film with the crew in fortytwo days which took three years from the preparation of the shooting to the completion of postproduction Eight years after the idea it was released in February 2015 Since its premiere in Hungary it has been played at film festivals around the world at which it won many prestigious international awards while in May 2015 it became the second most viewed film of the National Film Fund