Biography

Glória Halász directed eight full-length documentaries, including many international co-productions, which were featured and awarded at acknowledged film festivals, gained main prizes including the Grand Jury Award of UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival). Her projects are internationally distributed and broadcasted worldwide in association with companies like Journeyman Entertainment (United Kingdom) and ORF-Enterprise (Austria). Amongst others she has developed and created various film projects on a wide variety of topics, including films about a jail theatre company, a clown doctor, women in India and their surviving story after major acid attacks, classical ballet students, the 100-Member Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra, or a special class of Hungarian circus artists, who spent a semester in Kyiv. In addition, she has made numerous commercials and music videos. She was invited as a jury member for EPOS International Art Film Festival in Israel, Budapest Independent Film Festival, CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival and International Film Festival ART FILM (IFF ART FILM) Kosice. The relationship between fantasy and reality is a recurring issue in both her documentary and fiction works, exploring how imagination can be a handhold in a seemingly hopeless situation.
- IMDb mini biography by: Glória Halász