3rd Hungarian Film Showcase in London"Somewhere in the World"
22-28 June 2010
Gypsy Dreams (2009)
Director and Producer: Eszter Nordin
Director and Producer: Eszter Nordin
Eszter Nordin is a Hungarian director-producer.
She holds a Fine Arts degree, graduated at Pitzer College, California.
Her professional career has begun at BBC Television.
She worked in studio management, drama and documentaries departments.
As a freelance she directed drama and documentaries series in England.
In 1991, when she returned tu Hungary, she continued making documentaries, wrote screenplays, was directing in a theatre, was a supervising director of a succesful tv series, was teaching at the Hungarian Film Academy.
With her Media Mania Films production company she gained international recognition with her film TABU, which received several awards, among others the Special Mention at FIPA in 2003 in creative documentaries.
In her film "Gypsy Dreams" we get know a hungarian gypsy family whose life affected by unemployment and racial discrimination, and they have to come to a conclusion that they no longer have a future there.
Then they migrate to England. They arrive in Bolton where there's already a Hungarian Gypsy population.
They called the Lazi Family.
The documentary follows their struggle, from the promising start to the tough times when in 2009, the recession began in England and the factories closed their doors to foreign workers.
But the Lazis still have hope, and expecting their fourth child....
She holds a Fine Arts degree, graduated at Pitzer College, California.
Her professional career has begun at BBC Television.
She worked in studio management, drama and documentaries departments.
As a freelance she directed drama and documentaries series in England.
In 1991, when she returned tu Hungary, she continued making documentaries, wrote screenplays, was directing in a theatre, was a supervising director of a succesful tv series, was teaching at the Hungarian Film Academy.
With her Media Mania Films production company she gained international recognition with her film TABU, which received several awards, among others the Special Mention at FIPA in 2003 in creative documentaries.
In her film "Gypsy Dreams" we get know a hungarian gypsy family whose life affected by unemployment and racial discrimination, and they have to come to a conclusion that they no longer have a future there.
Then they migrate to England. They arrive in Bolton where there's already a Hungarian Gypsy population.
They called the Lazi Family.
The documentary follows their struggle, from the promising start to the tough times when in 2009, the recession began in England and the factories closed their doors to foreign workers.
But the Lazis still have hope, and expecting their fourth child....
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