Ibolya Fekete
Ibolya Fekete is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
After completing her studies of Hungarian and Russian literature and linguistics at the Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen in 1976, Ibolya Fekete first worked as a screenwriter, amongst others for György Szomjas, before she also started to work as a dramaturge for Hunnia Filmstudio, one of the four Hungarian film studios joined under the common brand of Mafilm in 1990, she made her debut as director with documentary Berlin and Back.Since 2003 teaching at the Budapest Filmacademy, she currently also works as a guest professor at the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is also teaching film direction at Budapest Metropolitan University in Budapest.
Awards
- Bolse Vita
- * Main Prize at the Angers European First Film Festival, France, 1997Chico
- * Ecumenical Award and Best Director Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2001
- * Special Jury Award during WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, USA, 2007