Zoltán Szilágyi Varga (born 23 June 1951) is a Hungarian graphic artist and animation director. He has received
Béla Balázs
Béla Balázs (; 4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory.
Career
Balázs was the son of Simon Bauer a ...
Prize for his work, and has been honored at five separate
Kecskemét Animation Film Festival
Kecskemét Animation Film Festival () (KAFF) is an animated film festival held biennially during the month of June in Kecskemét, Hungary. Although the bulk of the festival is oriented toward efforts in Hungarian animation, the associated KAFF-spo ...
s (KAFF), winning two memorial awards as well as prizes for Best Animation, Best Visual Language, and Best Script twice each.
Works
Some of Szilágyi Varga's more notable works include:
*''Éjszakai Kultúrtörténeti Hadgyakorlat'' ("Culturhistorical Manoeuvre at Night") – Winner of the 1993
KAFF Award for Best Visual Language.
*''Utazás a föld középppontja felé'' ("Journey to the Centre of the Earth") – Winner of the 2002 KAFF-Sponsored
Cambridge Animation Systems and Leonardo SNS Software Prize for High Use of Applied Technology.
*''A világlátott egérke'' ("The Widely Travelled Little Mouse") – Varga was honored 4 times at KAFF events in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 for specific episodes alongside
Lajos Nagy and
Sándor Kányádi (once in 2005).
**"A rokoni pártfogás" ("The Patronage of Relative") - An episode winning the 2005 KAFF Award for Best Script.
**"Vonaton ringatózva" ("Rocking on a Train") – An episode winning the 2007 KAFF Award for Best Animation.
KAFF 2007 Díjak
' (English:
KAFF 2007 Awards
). Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 2007.
**"Szabadulás a szolgaságból" ("Escape from Slavery") – An episode winning the 2009 KAFF Award for Best Animation.
A 9. Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál és a 6. Nemzetközi Animációs Fesztivál díjai
' (English:
Awards
). Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 2009.
**"Az óriások fogságában" ("Taken by the Giants") – An episode winning the 2011 KAFF Award for Best Animation.
10. Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál 7. Európai Animációs Játékfilm Fesztivál
'. Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 2011.
*''Jegyzőkönyv'' ("Court Record") – Varga was honored at the 2007 KAFF for a specific episode.
**"Mansfeld Péter emlékére" ("In Memoriam Peter Mansfeld") – An episode winning the 2007 KAFF Award for Best Script.
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*''Koan'' - Szilágyi Varga was honored at the 2009 KAFF for a specific episode.
**"A túlsó part" ("The Other Side") – An episode winning the 2009 KAFF Award from the Art Cinema Association.][
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References
External links
Filmévkönyv
{{DEFAULTSORT:Szilagyi Varga, Zoltan
Living people
Hungarian graphic artists
Hungarian film directors
Hungarian animators
1951 births
Hungarian animated film directors