Awards/Workshops::
2020 Sarajevo Film Festival, Best Pack & Pitch Prize
2019 Lisbon Docs Development Workshop
2019 DOK Leipzig Coproduction Market
2019 Budapest Debut Film Forum
Author: Andrea Ausztrics
17 min. short, 2020
Director: Szonja Szabó
Producer: Ádám Felszeghy
Executive Producer: Miklós Kázmér
“The Kestrels” is a female adolescent handball team of a little Hungarian countryside town. The Kestrels “Girls” travel, participate in competitions and train themselves. Their life is about the handball and the team. Up to now. The fifteen years old Franci is the best player. She feds up with the whole thing. How the trainer treat them. She has to make a hard decision. The team or the justice? Her best friend, Flora, tries to convince her during the afternoon to keep on playing . When Franci goes to the trainer, discussing the problem, her best friend, Flora is together with the couch.
24 min. short film, 2018
Director: Nikol Cibulya
Producer: Ádám Felszeghy
Co-produced
Festivals:
2018 Chicago International Genre Film Festival
2018 BuSho Film Festival Hungarian Panorama
2018 Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival
2018 Schlingel International Film Festival
2018 Trifi International Film Festival (WA, USA)
2018 Worldcon 76 (San Jose, CA)
Kovács László and Zsigmond Vilmos DOP Competition – special mention
80 min. documentary, 2020
Directors: Eszter Cseke, András S. Takács
Creative producer of the animations: Andrea Ausztrics
Post production for the animations
This is the story of a Jewish baby who was born in the death camp before the liberation and survived. An extraordinary journey of the second and third generation, breaking the cycle of trauma to free themselves from Auschwitz – forever.
Festivals:
2021 BIDF Budapest International Documentary Festival
2021 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (canceled)
TV:
Spektrum – Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic
ARTE – Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France
7 min. short fiction, 2017
Director: László Csáki
Producers: Andrea Ausztrics, Miklós Kázmér, Zoltán Hidvégi
An unexpected gastronomic visit to Lake Balaton on the hottest day of the year, based on a short story by Béla Fehér.
13 min. fiction short, 2017
Director: Bálint Dániel Sós
Producer: János György
Co-Produced
While it’s not uncommon for relatives to quarrel, the protagonists of these shorts take family dysfunction to another level.
Festivals:
2018 Hungarian Film Week
2017 Euroshorts
2017 BuSho Budapest Short Film Festival
2017 Palm Springs International Film Festival
2017 Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival
82 min. feature drama, 2016
Director: Jorge Valdés-Iga
Co-producer: Miklós Kázmér
Post-production
A 9/11 hero firefighter struggling with survival guilt is blackmailed into a journey of redemption by a photographer who can prove he survived only because he ran away.
Awards:
2017 Chelsea Film Festival – Winner, Best Actor
Festivals:
2016 Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival
2016 Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles
2016 Fiuggi Film Festival
2017 New York Independent Film Festival
80 min. feature film, 2011
Director: Márton Vécsei
Producer: Szántó Gábor, Vécsei Márton, Kondákor Linda
Co-producer: Zoltán Hidvégi, Miklós Kázmér
Post-Produced
„Do not try to save someone who does not want to be saved”. A disillusioned and depressed artist wants to make history by turning his suicide into performance art. An ambitious first feature film directed by Márton Vécsei
Festivals:
2011 Hungarian Film Week
12 min. animated short, 2019
Director: Eszter Kovács, Balázs Simon
Creative producer: Andrea Ausztrics
Producers: Zoltán Hidvégi, Miklós Kázmér
One day people decided to divide light from which some would have less than the others. In the midst of a prolonged strife two people from opposite sides choose to get to know each other.
6 min. animated short, 2018
Director: Károly ‘Kása’ Papp
Producer: Miklós Kázmér, Hidvégi Zoltán
Helix is a stop motion animation about the dynamics of human relationships inspired by Antal Kelle’s interactive meditation objects.
Awards:
2018 Senior Movie Film Festivalon 3rd Prize
Festivals:
2018 Warsaw Film Festival
2019 Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles
2019 Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival
2020 Seniormovie Festival
2020 Etiuda and Anima International Film Festival
2021 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival – International Competition
60 min. animated documentary, 3×50 min. animated documentary Tv mini-series, 2017
Director: Eliav Lilti
Producer: Arik Bernstein (Alma Films)
Creative producer of the animation: Andrea Ausztrics
Post-production producers: Miklós Kázmér, Hidvégi Zoltán
Post-production
‘I was brought up and destroyed in a hell called Nazism. I was educated and raised by the Holocaust.'(Ephraim Kishon)
Festivals:
2020 Kolnoa Israeli Film Festival
2020 Toronto Jewish Film Festival
2020 Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival
2019 Master of Art Film Festival, Bulgaria
2019 Naxos. Kino Film Festival, Germany
2019 Festival du Cinéma Israélien de Paris
2019 Copenhagen Jewish Film Festival
2018 Budapest Jewish and Israeli Film Festival, Hungary
2018 Israfest Foundation (Los Angeles Israeli Film Festival)
2018 Silicon Valley JewishFilm Festival
2018 Jewish International Jewish Film Festival, Australia
2018 Bradford Film Festival, UK
2018 Berlin Jewish Film Festival
2018 DOK.fest Munich
2018 Washington Jewish Film Festival
2017 Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
6 min. animated short, 2016
Director: David Dell’Edera
Produced by: Éva M. Tóth, Péter Csornay
Executive Producer: Miklós Kázmér, Zoltán Hidvégi
Co-Produced with Metropolitan University
Awards 2016-2017:
Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2016 – Jury Award
Encounters – Short Film and Animation Festival 2016- Cartoon d’Or nomination
Premiers Plans Angers Film Festival- Grand Prix du Jury
Jameson CineFest International Film Festival- Special Award
International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults- 3rd place Award
Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films – Special Price
Interfilm Berlin – Special mention
KAFF -Kecskemét Film Festival – Award of the film critics
Creative Craft Festival – Best Director Award, Best Design and 2D Animation Award, Best Visual
Guanajuato International Film Festival
London International Animation Film Festival
International Film Festival of Fine Arts Szolnok
Anima The Brussels Animation Film Festival
Anilogue International Animation Film Festival
New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival
Primanima World Festival of First Animations
ZUBROFFKA International Short Film Festival
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Animateka International Animation Film Festival
Roanne Animation Film Festival
DC International Film Festival
Revolutions on Air – The Golden Era of New York Radio 1980-1988
17 min. animated documentary short, 2015
Director: Joey Garfield
Director of the animations: Balázs Simon
Radio during the ’80s featured the most dynamic and influential soundtrack the city has ever heard. Revolutions On Air is the story of mix show legends and studio wizards like Shep Pettibone, Tony Humphries, The Latin Rascals, Marley Marl, and Kool DJ Red Alert – innovators whose “anything goes” attitude pushed the emerging hip-hop, electro, freestyle, and house music scenes and kept radio listeners citywide hooked to their tape decks in order to record these now-classic mixes. Decades later we’re still feeling the impact of these Revolutions On Air.
27 min. animated short, 2015
Director: Emil Goodman
Producers: Miklós Kázmér, Zoltán Hidvégi
The lonely traveller born by the light Sina who has infinite knowledge is searching the Universe seeking for the source of life. He wants to understand the source of life in the hope that eventually he could become a creator himself. He’s able to replicate the creatures of the Universe but he’s incapable of creating real life. Through a signal he finds Koré – the young ancestress living on a dying planet. Together they are able to create real beings. But Sina eventually becomes envious of the creating power of the girl and this feeling pushes their relationship to decay. Sina has to fight with his own nature so that he could get forgiveness and eventually he and Koré could start to create a new world of purity.
11 min. animated short, 2013
Director: Emil Goodman
Producer: Zoltán Hidvégi, Daniel Kresmery, Miklós Kázmér
Co-Produced with Krez Film in association with Immortal Transmedia
The short is about a famous jazz singer, the heart broken Francis Blaise’s return from retirement and final farewell concert. It features a new original song composed by Pascal Ayatti, sung by Balázs Fehér of the Carbonfools, and performed by the Hungarian Studio Orchestra.
74 min animated feature and animated Tv-series 1st episode, 2013
Directed by: Arne Lindtner Næss
Co-produced by Umbrella Collective
Based on Norway’s best selling children’s book, Karsten og Petra the movie opened in cinemas across Norway in February 2013. Produced by Cinenord of Norway in coproduction with Proton Cinema and Umbrella. Altogether the production made over 35 minutes of VFX shots and 5 minutes of animation over a 9-month period of time.
Awards:
2013 Pula Film Festival: Audience Award – Best Feature
2013 Amanda Awards, Norway – Best Children Film
2013 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – Best Children’s Film
2013 Schlingel International Filmfestival, Chemnitz – Special Mention
2014 Days of Independent Film, Augsburg – awarded
2014 Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival, Poznan – Best Feature
Festivals:
2013 TIFF Kids Toronto
2013 Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival
2013 Buster Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth
2013 Cinekid Festival, Amsterdam
2013 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
2013 Lübeck Nordic Film Days
2013 Just Film Youth and Children’s Film Festival, Tallinn
2013 Ciné-Jeune de l’Aisne International Film Festival
2016 JEF – Europees Jeugdfilmfestival Vlaanderen, Antwerp
20 min. animated short, 2012
Director: László Csáki
Producer: Miklós Kázmér
The film is based on the well-known short story ‘Oil of Dog’. The rough and simple chalk animation technique is match for the absurd and surrealistic style of the story. The line-drawing character representation over a black background is in the flavour of film noir. This is the story of Boffer Bings, who lives in a village where his father manages a prosperous business producing dog-oil. Boffer Bings not only assists his father in procuring dogs for distill, but also helps to carry away the debris of his mother’s studio, where she disposes of unwelcome babes. Martin is accomplished in his jobs, until his accidental invention steers the family business into an economic boom. Tragedy is inevitable.
Festivals:
2014 17th Brooklyn Film Festival (in competition)
2014 Short Shorts Film Festival (in competition)
2014 Piccolo Festival dell’Animazione (in competition)
2013 Zubroffka 8th International Short Film Festival (in competition)
2013 13th Hungarian Film Festival Los Angeles
2013 Northern Wave Film Festival (in competition)
2013 Animateka International Animated Film Festival (in competition)
2013 3D Wire International Animated Film Festival (in competition)
2013 Vilnius Shorts (in competition)
2013 Message to Man (in competition)
2013 Guanajuato International Film Festival (in competition)
2013 11th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival (in competition)
2012 Anilogue International Animation Film Festival (in competition)
Prizes:
2013 11th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival, Main Prize and Film Critics Prize
2013 92nd Annual Awards, Art Directors Club, Merit Award
26 min. documentary short, 2010
Director: László Csáki
Co-producer: Miklós Kázmér
Co-Produced
This is a lyrical documentary shot throughout the four seasons about the life of the people who live in cellar houses on the hills of Avas, Miskolc. The past and present of the location is presented through the personal stories of its inhabitants. The buildings, which are set in the middle of the city, are built in a totally different style to those around them, lending that part of the city a special atmosphere. This is the atmosphere conveyed in the film Tincity.
42 min. animated experimental documentary, 2010
Director: Danila Kostil
Producer: Andrea Ausztrics
Post production the Jury award at Annecy Festival 2016.
A raw, honest and humorous tale about Jani Kula’s search for his path in life and in busy Kulo City. The film is based on the popular comic book designed by Attila Stark.
85 min. documentary, 2010
Director: Dávid Merényi
Produceders: Miklós Kázmér, Dániel Herner, Márton Gothár
Produced by Pig Production as a branch of Umbrella Collective
With an intimate look into the band’s life, this concert documentary is about the farewell concert of cult Hungarian band ‘Kispál és a borz’.