Dénes Nagy (
Budapest
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, 1980)
is a Hungarian film director, editor and screenwriter. His first feature film, ''
Natural Light'' was awarded the
Silver Bear for Best Director
The Silver Bear for Best Director () is an award presented annually at the Berlin International Film Festival since 1956. It is given for the best achievement in directing and is chosen by the International Jury from the films in the Competition ...
in 2021.
Life and career
He graduated from the
University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest in film directing in 2009.
He attended the
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB, German Film and Television Academy Berlin) is a film school in Berlin, Germany
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for one year. Several of his short films were shown in international festivals; his 2006 short ''Kovács Éva'' was invited to the
Tampere Film Festival, ''Russian Playground'' was featured at Cannes Critics' Week in 2009, the short film ''Együtt'' received the Hungarian Film Critics' Award for best short film and won the award for best short film director at the 38th Hungarian Film Week (Magyar Filmszemle).
His work titled ''Lágy eső'' won the Fiction Grand Prize award at the Portuguese
Curtas Vila do Conde film festival in 2013.
Films
*2004 – ''2003 November'' (short film)
* 2006 – ''Együtt'' (short film)
* 2006 – ''Vakáció'' (short film) (assistant to the director)
* 2008 – ''Russian Playground'' (short documentary)
* 2009 – ''Cinetrain: Where Does Europe End?'' (documentary)
* 2009 – ''Berlinskaya Fuga'' (short film)
* 2010 – ''Riport'' (short film)
* 2013 – ''Lágy eső'' (short film)
* 2013 – ''Másik Magyarország'' (documentary)
* 2015 – ''Seb'' (documentary)
* 2021 – ''
Natural Light (Természetes fény)'' (feature film)
References
External links
*
Dénes Nagy • Director of Natural Light (video interview) Cineuropa
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1980 births
Hungarian film directors
Silver Bear for Best Director recipients
Living people
Media Wave Award winners
21st-century Hungarian screenwriters
Film people from Budapest
Hungarian male screenwriters