Nora Lakos
Festival Director
Nora Lakos is a Hungarian film director. Her main goal is revive the children's film in Hungary. For that she directs film for children and youth, founded the Children's Film Academy where children aged 8-18 learn filmmaking and organizes Cinemira, the first International Children's and Youth Film Festival in Hungary
Katalin Banai
Festival Coordinator
Katalin Banai is the program coordinator of Palantir Film Foundation. She earned her Cultural Manager degree from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. She works with several documentary film festivals, including Taiwan DOX and Budapest International Documentary Festival.
Gyorgy Somogyi
Film Programmer
Gyorgy Somogyi is a Hungarian screenwriter and also a member of the Children's Film Academy. Gyorgy created tv films, award winning shorts and also a very popular comic book called Kittenberger.
Marcell Furedi
Film Programmer
Marcell Füredi is a Hungarian cinematographer and a tutor at The Children’s Film Academy.
Karoly Ascher
Film Programmer
Karoly Ascher has a degree in film and animation. He is a teacher at the Children's Film Academy and works in filmmaking and casting.
Balint Horvath
Communication Manager
Balint Horváth is a Hungarian film journalist and a freelance cultural writer.
Aida Kavalecz
Social Media Specialist
Aida Kavalecz is a communications expert, currently a freelance social media specialist, strategist and copywriter in the fields of innovation, film, retail and education. After gaining experience at advertising agencies, multinational companies and domestic SMEs, she switched to freelance, in addition to long-term jobs, she also holds workshops and consultations on communication topics.
Diána Berényi
Professional Program Coordinator
Diána Berényi is a PR and communications expert, she has been working for more than 15 years in the field of media regulation. In connection with her field of expertise - film support, protection of minors and media literacy – she mainly organised comunication campaigns and film festivals. Diana is also a communications consultant and production manager of several animation film companies.
Zsófi Herczeg
Animation preselection coordinator, website editor
Zsófi Herczeg is an animation journalist, short film distributor, festival organiser and teacher. In 2015, she founded the animation website Dot & Line, which focuses on contemporary Hungarian animation, as the only one in Hungarian media. She has been involved in the Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival, Primanima World Festival of First Animations, Kecskemét Animation Film Festival, Cinemira International Children's Film Festival, and various animation events and projects. She teaches animation history and theory at the Illyés Academy of Arts in Budaörs. She's responsible for the festival circuits of Hungarian animation directors, such as Réka Bucsi, Dániel Bárány, Júlia Farkas, Máté Horesnyi, Luca Tóth and Balázs Turai. She is also the press officer of the film distribution company ADS.
CONTACT
Email: cinemirafilmfest@gmail.com
Tel: +36205919882
LOCATION
Corvin Cinema
1082, Budapest, Corvin köz 1.