GYPSY DREAMS (2009)

3rd Hungarian Film Showcase in London

"Somewhere in the World"
22-28 June 2010

Gypsy Dreams (2009)

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....

HUNKY BLUES: THE AMERICAN DREAM (2009)

3rd Hungarian Film Showcase in London

"Somewhere in the World"
22-28 June 2010

Hunky Blues: The American Dream (2009)

Director: Peter Forgacs

Peter Forgacs is a Hungarian media artist and independent film maker. Since 1978 he made more than 30 films, but he is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award winning films often based on ordinary lives from 1920s and 80s.

Throughout his career he received several international awards. Among others: 2007 Dutch Erasmus Prize for his notable contributions to European Culture 2000 Grand Prize for The Maelstrom, "Out of the Darkness" International Film Festival, London 2000 The Golden Spire, Golden Gate award, for Angelos' Film, San Francisco International Film Festival 1997 Berlin, Prix Europa for Free Fall film His international debute came with The Bartos Family (1988).

Since 1990s his video installations have been presented at museums and art galleries throughout Europe and America. Between 2000-2002 he was artist in residence in The Getty Museum/Getty Research Institue, Los Angeles where he created The Danube Exodus: Rippling Currents of The River Installation.

His works can be found in several museums and public collections. In 2009 he represented Hungary in the Venice Biennale, exhibiting the Col Tempo- The W. Project installation.

/Source: www.forgacspeter.hu, www.hunkyblues.com/

He created Hunky Blues in 2009.

Producer: Gabor Kovacs
Editor: Peter Sass

Musicians:
Karoly Cserepes - keyboard, percussion;
Bela Agoston - saxophone;
Kalman Balog - cimbalom;
Kalman Bango - glass-cimbalom;
Zoltan Farkas - guitar;
Adam Javorka - viola;
Dodi Karpati - trumpet

"The film is a documentary, exploring the fate of thousands of Hungarians who arrived to the United States between 1890 and 1921,reveals the difficult moments of arrival, integration and assimilation, which eventually fed the happiness of the later generations and their fulfillment of the American Dream."

Forgacs tells the story with found footages, photographs and interviews.

IMMIGRANTS (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)

3rd Hungarian Film Showcase in London

"Somewhere in the World"
22-28 June 2010

Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)


The Director, Gabor Csupo is a chairman and co-founder of Klasky Csupo Inc., the entertainment industry's leading independent animation company.

He was born in Budapest, Hungary, studied music for eight years and art for four, before starting his professional training in animation in Hungary's famous Pannonia Studios in 1971. In 1975 from the communist Hungary he's escaped to Austria, then without passport and any resources he's travelled to West Germany, then to Denmark, and then to Stockholm, Sweden.

In 1978 he's met and fell in love with Arlene Klasky, and American graphic designer. He's moved to Hollywood in 1979, where they've got married.

Csupo's first job was at the legendary Hanna Barbera Studios, where he worked as an animator.

In 1981, Klasky and Csupo formed their own animation company, Klasky Csupo Inc., in a spare room of their apartment. In 1983 they've moved to their real office, expanding into motion graphics and live-action production.

Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo in 2002

In 1988 Klasky Csupo was asked by director James L. Brooks to animate a cartoon strip, "The Simpsons". For its efforts, Klasky Csupo garnered worldwide recognition and Emmy Awards two years in a row.

Continuing to break a new ground, Csupo co-developed, produced and animated the "Rugrats" series, and in 1988 he's co-produced "The Rugrats Movie" and "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie".

Csupo himself has presided designing, supervising, animating commercials, company logos, TV stations, motion picture trailers, on-air network productions and industrial films.

As and expression of his long-life passion for music Csupo founded the record labels Tone Casulties and Casual Tonalities in 1994.

The Director's latest work is "The Bridge to Terabithia".

(Source: www.klaskycsupo.com)

The Immigrants, the fifth feature-length film from Klasky Csupo was released in 2008, and is about Joska, the Hungarian, and Vladislav, the Russian, who're oping for a better life by chasing the American Dream, tons of money and loads of women. They share an apartment in Los Angeles, and get into all sorts of troubles together, and throughout their adventures they learn the true meaning of friendship.

CLOSE TO LOVE (1999)

3rd Hungarian Film Showcase in London

"Somewhere in the World"
22-28 June 2010

Close to Love (1999)

Director: Andras Salamon

"Salamon's extensive experience with the medium of the documentary clearly assists him in his handling of Close to Love. Well versed in his principle themes by now, Salamon creates his characters with confidence and depth; he allows them to be the basis of the film rather some preordained number of car-chases, shoot-outs and love scenes that directors these days seem to think are absolutely necessary to their film. Ironically, Close to Love does contain a car-chase, a shoot-out and a love-scene but they are their because the characters, and not the director, demand them.

Close to Love is a modest film which has simple aims - to tell a story.
Since it was one of the few films that seemed prepared to do this, it is perhaps no surprise that the film was rewarded with a distinction for the best screenplay."

/Source: by Andrew J Horton, 6 April 1999, Central Europe Review, Kinoeye, http://www.ce-review.org/kinoeye/kinoeye28old1.html/

Cast: Ferenc Hujber, Tsuyu Shimizu, Nimrod Antal, János Gyuriska, Károly Gesztesi, Ervin Nagy, Erzsi Pásztor, András Ambrus, András Fekete, Sarolta Thuroczy

Ferenc Hujber and Tsuyu Shimizu in "Close to Love"



Plot: Karcsi seems to have it all: he fulfilled his dreams in the big city, he is a policeman as he always wanted to be, has a dog and found true love. Yet the fact that his girlfriend is a Chinese immigrant in Budapest means that there is still a lot their love has to conquer.