Gyula Gazdag

Gyula Gazdag born 19 July 1947 in Budapest is a Hungarian film director screenwriter and actor Gyula Gazdag is a director of film theater and television He was a professor at the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television from 19932015 and has served as the artistic director of the Sundance Filmmakers Lab since 1997 His numerous feature films include A Hungarian Fairy Tale 1987 which won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival Named one of the years 10 Best Films by the Village Voice and the Best Feature Film of the year by the Hungarian Film Critics Awards it screened at 20 film festivals worldwide including the Directors Fortnight at Cannes Gazdags other films include Stand Off 1989 which won a Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián International Film Festival Lost Illusions 1983 named Best Screenplay by Hungarian Film Week Singing on the Treadmill 1974 The Whistling Cobblestone1971 named Best First Feature by the Hungarian Film Critics Awards and Swap Gazdag has also directed many documentaries including A Poet on the Lower East Side A DocuDiary on Allen Ginsberg 1997 Hungarian Chronicles 1991 Berlinale Forum entrant Package Tour 1985 The Banquet 1982 The Resolution 1972 named on one of the best 100 documentaries of all time by the International Documentary Association The Selection 1970 and The Long Distance Runner 1969 Most of Gazdags films were banned for shorter or longer periods of time in communist Hungary some also had been denied foreign exhibition For the stage he directed Candide The Bald Soprano The Abduction From the Seraglio The Tempest Tom Jones and The Hothouse among many others Gazdag has been a creative advisor at the Maurits Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam since 2002 and at the Script Station of the Berlinale Talent Campus since 2006