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JÁNOS SZÁSZ
Film and theatre director.
Member of the European Film Academy.
(2001-2002) Director of the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
Faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
Lecturer at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest,
in film direction; also tutor at the acting master class.
From the age of 18 he spent 4 years at the Hungarian National Theatre in Budapest as a props man. After this, he graduated from the Budapest State Film and Theatre Academy as a theatre and film dramaturg and writer, after which he also attended the film direction course.
He graduated from the Academy as a film director in 1987.
He has made several TV programs for children (mainly fiction, but also documentaries).
Has made several documentaries for Hungarian State TV, mainly on sociographical themes.
FILMS
THE LEDERER AFFAIR/ 2008 /in preparation
w.Ulrich Thomsen
OPIUM 2007
2007 Hungarian National film festival
BEST DIRECTOR PRIZE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER PRIZE
BEST SOUND DESIGN
GENE MOSKOWITZ ( THE FOREIGN FILM CRITIC’S) PRIZE
2007 Moscow Film festival
BEST FEMALE ACTRESS IN THE LEADING ROLL / KIRSTI STUBOE
2008 PORTO / FANTASTOPORTO FESTIVAL /
PRIZE FOR THE BEST FILM,
BEST FEMALE ACTRESS IN THE LEADING ROLL / KIRSTI STUBOE
EYES OF THE HOLOCAUST documentary
USA - Hungarian, 60 min. - 2001
Produced by STEVEN SPIELBERG
Part of the project BROKEN SILENCE, together with films by
Andrej Wajda, Pavel Chukrai, Luis Puenzo
WITMAN BOYS feature
France - Germany - Hungary 1997
Cannes: Une Certain Regard, Selection Officiel
Moscow Intl. Film Festival –Best Director prize
Moscow Intl. Film Festival - the F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I. prize (intl. film critics’ prize)
Hungarian nominee for the foreign-language OSCAR
Ghent Film Festival – Main prize
Bruxelles - Prix L’Age d’Or
Chicago - Silver Hugo
Berlin - FELIX prize nominee for best cinematographer: Tibor Mathe
Budapest National Filmweek - Foreign critics’ Gene Moskowitz prize
Tromso (Norvege) Main Prize, the AUDIENCE PRIZE
(the WITMAN BOYS was shown at more than 60 different film festivals, won 20 different prizes)
in 1998 in Park City, at the Sundance Film festival in Utah, János Szász was announced as one of
the Ten Up-and-coming Film directors in the World by the Sundance film festival and Daily Variety film magazine.
WOYZECK feature
Hungary, l995
Berlin - FELIX PRIZE (European Film Academy Award) for
Best Young European Film
Hungarian nominee for the foreign-language OSCAR
Chicago – Gold Plaque
Strasbourg – Main Prize
Thessaloniki – Best Director
Thessaloniki - Best Main Male Character
Bergamo – Silver Rose
Sochi- F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I.( intl. filmcritics’ prize)
Budapest National Filmweek – 5 prizes, including main prize, foreign critics’ Gene Moskowitz prize
San Diego – Best Cinematographer
Valladolid - Best Cinematographer
Torun - Golden Frog Prize
(The film won more than 20 different prizes, and was shown at 55 international film festivals)
DON’T DISTURB! feature
Hungary - 1990
Bogotá - Best Director's Prize
Bratislava - Best Foreign Film
THE FUNERAL short feature
30 min. - 1999
Krakow - Special Prize of the JURY
Antalya - The GOLDEN ORANGE for the best feature film
In THEATER /2001-2005/
Chekhov SEGULL 2009( in prep.)
American Repertory Theatre
Sophocles/ Fosse DEATH IN THEBEN 2008
( oidipos /colonos/antigone)
Det Norske Teatret / OSLO
Chekhov SEGULL 2007
Barka Theater
Ragni/ Mc Dermot HAIR 2006
Det Norske Teatret / OSLO
Brecht CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE 2005
Det Norske Teatret
Shakespeare KING LEAR 2007
Gyula SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
O’Neill Desire under the Elms 2005
Boston, American Repertory Theatre.
Bulgakov Master and Margarita 2006
Budapest, National Theater
Anton Chekhov Uncle Vania 2003
Boston, American Repertory Theatre.
Peter Weiss Marat / Sade 2002
Boston, American Repertory Theatre.
Tennesee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire 2000
ARENA STAGE – Washington DC
Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage 2000
Boston, American Repertory Theatre
and Budapest VIGSZINHAZ Theatre
Henrik Ibsen The Ghosts 1999
