Demeter Lóránt

Demeter Lorant born 1982 Hungary is a director writer and animator whose career began in 1999 with his first amateur horror short Picnic followed by a series of short films In 2003 he directed his first professional short Lag which won Best Editing at the New York Short Film Festival He continued exploring the horror genre with two selffinanced more abstract works Royal Flush and Urine In 2005 Lorant began developing the feature project Block66 which ultimately remained unrealized Shifting focus he delved into animation and visual arts directing over 50 music videos for indie bands and becoming a leading projection mapping artist In 2010 he founded Full Screen Studio which grew into one of Hungarys top visual content production companies for events and projection mapping Lorant returned to horror filmmaking in 2015 with Lucky Girl inspired by 1970s Exploitation Cinema and the French New Wave Extremism His 2020 scifi short Possessed by Aliens a familyfriendly story about a boy and his alienpossessed grandmother gained wide acclaim screening at over 40 festivals worldwide and earning numerous nominations and awards In 2023 he achieved his biggest success yet with SILEO an animated scifi short based on the Ship of Theseus thought experiment earning selections nominations and awards at major genre film festivals globally In 2024 Lorant and his producing partner Gábor Sz Nagy completed their first featurelength arthouse horror film Dreamland Awaits now in postproduction They also filmed Through the Eyes of Lóránt a documentary about Lorants father a renowned Hungarian painter alongside a documentary about indie filmmaking With multiple projects in postproduction and new films on the horizon 2025 is shaping up to be a very busy year for Demeter Lorant