Rimóczi László, screenplay-writer "The short films open a new dimensions to the viewers and to their animal needs, because their is more time, there are more possibilities to go to pee, as if You spent 1,5 hours on your seat looking a feature film."
"A short film is like a novel: there can't be a neutral gear and long unfolding in it. The most impressive works are really short, and it starts powerfully. If a dog walks for 3 minutes at a meadow, I wind forward the film. If this same dog runs on a bed while I hear some impulsive music, I go on watching the film. So: if You possess a camera, there"s no need to use it by all means. Message to the obliged filmmakers: do not send junks, because it hurts to watch them."
Szabó Simon, independent filmmaker He has been making films for six years, he has not been indentured to the University, though he already tried once. His known works are: Afterjka, Pocketlove, We go. He has some acknowledgements, but he doesn't boast. Only sometimes, if somebody asks. One time he was a jury-member. Good guy!
" Shorts, clearly, nicely, with high standards! : SHORTFILMFEST
Szilágyi Kornél (Igor Buharov), experimental filmmaker I was born in Budapest, in 1971. After graduating from secondary school I trained as a chef, then I tried to learn to play the saxophone. At the moment I am a student at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.
"BuSho- as You can see it from the name, means Budapest Short Film Festival, so to the applicants I say: the applied works should be SHORT, and should not lose their essence.We saw many films, with unneededly long scenes, which added nothing- so bated something- to the matter, and with overexplained parts. All the filmmakers know, that it's not easy to part with some beloved scenes, but please take a look at your work, as if you were somebody else, and don't be afraid to use those scissor! This will be in favour of the story-telling. And I would like to say that be brave , dare to innovate, because the futurer is a dizzying perspective.
Gergely Zoltán.Director, Screenplay writer (1975 - Nyíregyháza) He graduated at SzFE in 2006, in the first class of screenplay-writers, he was taught by Schulze Éva and Orsós László Jakab. Formerly he wrote advertisements, and this duality is present in his whole life and in his works. As a screenplay writer he made feature films, TV-programmes, and shorts in scores of genres. He has been directing since 2005, his work entitled " Superwash" has been selected into the program of International Film Festival of Atlanta, of the Future Film Festival at Karlovy Vary, and it won the prestigious Simó Prize of the Madzag Filmegylet, also the main prize of BuSho and of the 1. UPC-AXN Festival, and " The best young Director"-prize at Brno 16. In 2006. he accomplished his studies at the screenplay-writing faculty of the University of Cinematic Arts at Budapest, currently he works on his diploma work, he writes and directs advertisements, and writes screenplays. As an ad-director he gained attention of the whole world: in 2007, at CineReal Fest ( festival of transport films) he won the prize of the " best ad-director". This led to an even bigger success: the editors of London Shots, which is an ad-selection, selected him into the New Director-section. In 2008. he was invited to the Berlinale Talent Campus.
I ask the applicant to send the films without menu, so that they could start automatically with subtitles in order to accelerate the proccess of pre-jurying. Now, that I sat in a pre-jury for the first time I wonder that I won something at all. Maybe I was more patient than my mates, and I would have watched the worst films if they had let me. Perhaps this is because I remember: my first works were awful, and I would have liked somebody to watch them, instead of fire the cinema, break the projector, or lynching the projectionist. These were all promised by my first viewers.
The lesson is: every film has the same value as its weakest and it strongest point. The less unnecessary elements, moments, dialogues and scenes it contains, the more powerful and impressive it is! It's the filmmakers' responsability, to edit everything which doesn't work.
I am very proud and happy that I could meet excellent and talented people int he pre-jury, unfortunately I managed to make fool of myself int he first 2 seconds by saying about a film which was shot on Super8 and wasn't liked by the others that it looked like a Buharov- film. Int he next moment it became clear that the person sitting next to me was one of the Buharovs. If somewhere in the city you here tee-hees and " it looks like a buharovfilm" ( like this, one word) about food, woman, car, story, which is realistic, but looks dirty and scratched somehow, like a badly developped Super 8, then You'll know: this comes from the silly comment of a talented and / or well-intentioned young filmmaker.
Deák Dániel He started filmmaking at the Faculty of Film-Theory of ELTE, he shot some shorts, among others at the workshops of Nisi Masa ( a european film organization), his articles related to film and filmmaking were published for example in Filnvilág, Filmhu, and Muszter. Currently he works as an editor at Filmhu and at Litera TV, and he is a founding member of Daazo.com, an international homepage about/ of short films.
"Life is too short for too long films - cut , cut, cut!
After finishing her PhD in Elementary Particle Physics Claudia Lehmann made a 180 degree turn in her life and graduaded masterclass studies in directing at Hamburg Media School with her shortfilm Memory Effekt, that was screened at the 57th International Filmfestival Berlin and won the Shocking Short Award 2007. She also works as a video artist for theatre productions. Currently she is in post production with her documentary "Berlin Playground" about an east german musician and she is developing her first feature, a novel adaptation about parallel universes and a crime scene.
Tsanko VASILEV
was born in Sofia in 1974. There he started his career as an assistant then becoming a producer and director. He cooperates with the Bulgarian National Television channel producing and directing films. He is chairman of the Student Film Forum Foundation and director of the International Short Film Festival "In the Palace", co-organizer of Ministry of Culture for the Days of Independent Filmmakers, initiator of the presentation of the Backup Festival Germany in Sofia, author of the project for founding the social center "Experience" and curator of the special program for experimental cinema, new media and video art in Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Germany, UK and Hungary.
Carlos GUIMARAES
Brazilian journalist and filmmaker. Director Communication and Education for Development at CIC-Batá, a Spanish NGO. Director of La Imagen del Sur Documentary and Social Film Festival. Coordinator of Tierra de Todos, an European consortium to promote films and docs from Latin America, Asia and Africa in Europe. Professor of Communication for Development in Sevilla and Cadiz Universities, in Spain. Member of the editorial council of PUEBLOS magazine.
Wolfgang LEIS
Studied Communications Sience in Munich and wrote his thesis about Public Relations in Hungary in 1988. Leis experienced both, the past communist COMECON and the new capitalist EU every day life reality in Central and East Europe. Selling Branding advise he should anticipate consumer trends and tastes. Thus he represents the non-pro film bon vivant.
LIBOR Anita
I used to learn several things (hungarian literature and lingustics, communication, english literature and linguistics, journalism). I used to work in several area (I demonstrated, I sailed, I student juried, I bustled around). Nowadays I mostly write and edit, mainly for filmhu. I watch a lot of movies: silent and talkie ones, coloured and black&white, short ones and feature ones, foreign and hungarian ones as well, whatever I have a sudden fancy for.
The experiences, collected as a TV specialized trainee increased the passion and interest towards films and filming, which I have since I was a child. To be the member of the Student Jury means privilege, challenge and huge responsibility to me.
Lang Tamás (20)
I'm an idiot from an old Forman movie. By the way I'm a film student in Szombathely.
Sánta Katalin (22)
I'm studiing in the College of Eger, specialized in film. Concerning films I'm omnivorous, I watch all kinds of films. I adore both watching and making them.
Tóth Barbara (21)
I write films, write about films, make films, organize film festivals, film clubs. I am consumed with desire to make a film once among honourable circumstances.
Zentai András Dániel (23)
Untill now I've made films only in small, but once I want to make a really big one... because "Film is big".
"The short films open a new dimensions to the viewers and to their animal needs, because their is more time, there are more possibilities to go to pee, as if You spent 1,5 hours on your seat looking a feature film."
He has been making films for six years, he has not been indentured to the University, though he already tried once. His known works are: Afterjka, Pocketlove, We go. He has some acknowledgements, but he doesn't boast. Only sometimes, if somebody asks. One time he was a jury-member. Good guy!
I was born in Budapest, in 1971. After graduating from secondary school I trained as a chef, then I tried to learn to play the saxophone. At the moment I am a student at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.
He started filmmaking at the Faculty of Film-Theory of ELTE, he shot some shorts, among others at the workshops of Nisi Masa ( a european film organization), his articles related to film and filmmaking were published for example in Filnvilág, Filmhu, and Muszter. Currently he works as an editor at Filmhu and at Litera TV, and he is a founding member of Daazo.com, an international homepage about/ of short films.
After finishing her PhD in Elementary Particle Physics Claudia Lehmann made a 180 degree turn in her life and graduaded masterclass studies in directing at Hamburg Media School with her shortfilm Memory Effekt, that was screened at the 57th International Filmfestival Berlin and won the Shocking Short Award 2007. She also works as a video artist for theatre productions. Currently she is in post production with her documentary "Berlin Playground" about an east german musician and she is developing her first feature, a novel adaptation about parallel universes and a crime scene.
was born in Sofia in 1974. There he started his career as an assistant then becoming a producer and director. He cooperates with the Bulgarian National Television channel producing and directing films. He is chairman of the Student Film Forum Foundation and director of the International Short Film Festival "In the Palace", co-organizer of Ministry of Culture for the Days of Independent Filmmakers, initiator of the presentation of the Backup Festival Germany in Sofia, author of the project for founding the social center "Experience" and curator of the special program for experimental cinema, new media and video art in Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Germany, UK and Hungary.
Brazilian journalist and filmmaker. Director Communication and Education for Development at CIC-Batá, a Spanish NGO. Director of La Imagen del Sur Documentary and Social Film Festival. Coordinator of Tierra de Todos, an European consortium to promote films and docs from Latin America, Asia and Africa in Europe. Professor of Communication for Development in Sevilla and Cadiz Universities, in Spain. Member of the editorial council of PUEBLOS magazine.
Studied Communications Sience in Munich and wrote his thesis about Public Relations in Hungary in 1988. Leis experienced both, the past communist COMECON and the new capitalist EU every day life reality in Central and East Europe. Selling Branding advise he should anticipate consumer trends and tastes. Thus he represents the non-pro film bon vivant.
I used to learn several things (hungarian literature and lingustics, communication, english literature and linguistics, journalism). I used to work in several area (I demonstrated, I sailed, I student juried, I bustled around). Nowadays I mostly write and edit, mainly for filmhu. I watch a lot of movies: silent and talkie ones, coloured and black&white, short ones and feature ones, foreign and hungarian ones as well, whatever I have a sudden fancy for.
The experiences, collected as a TV specialized trainee increased the passion and interest towards films and filming, which I have since I was a child. To be the member of the Student Jury means privilege, challenge and huge responsibility to me.
I'm an idiot from an old Forman movie. By the way I'm a film student in Szombathely.
I'm studiing in the College of Eger, specialized in film. Concerning films I'm omnivorous, I watch all kinds of films. I adore both watching and making them.
I write films, write about films, make films, organize film festivals, film clubs. I am consumed with desire to make a film once among honourable circumstances.
Untill now I've made films only in small, but once I want to make a really big one... because "Film is big".
