is an exemplary member of the Hungarian scientific education community. After doing reseach work for 15 years as a geologist his main pursuit became scientific education. He was director of TIT Stúdió – an Agency of Natural Sciences – for 16 years and then for more than a decade Editor in Chief of the Sciece Department of the Hungarian Television. He published 25 books. Various television channels currently broadcast more than 70 of his ducumentaries
Film reviews 2020
In 2020 there had been over 2000 entries from 114 countries, including 124 from the Carpathian Basin.
In two film reviews 12 cathegory winners had been awarded on 12. September:
International Nature Film Review in 8 categories
Treasures of the Carpathian Basin Review in 4 categories.
Screening of cc. 130 films at seven Festival venues were open to the public for free.
In order to meet the COVID regulations the number of visitors was controlled and appropriate distance between people was assured at all places.
Thematic screening venues:
Riding Stable of the Royal Palace, Gödöllő – nature films
Royal Palace rooms – documentary
Elisabeth Garden – nature films.
During the Festival and until 10. October 2020. screening of films on nature and environmental protection take place at several places, including national parks, regional TV channels and two Hungarian villages outside the borders of Hungary.
We are thankful for every filmmaker, supporter and especially for all our visitors!
See You again on 28-30. May 2021!
Entries are open between 15. November 2020 – 28. February 2021. on filmfreeway.com
International Nature Film Festival 2020
Greetings,
the organisers
award ceremony
International Film Review – Nature films
A díjat átadja Dányi Anita
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| Okavango - River of Dreams - Episode 2: Limbo | Ausztria | Dereck and Beverly Joubert | |
| The Sanctuary : Survival stories of the Alps | Franciaország | Frédéric Fougea | |
| Going Nuts - Tales from the Squirrel World | Németország | YANN SOCHACZEWSKI | 500 EUR szobor oklevél |
International Film Review - Nature films - shortfilms
A díjat átadja Dányi Anita
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | Sandy Illusions | Hollandia | Robert Hughan | |
| 3. | A Word of Warming | Egyesült Királyság | Yasmine Ellis | |
| 2. | Unexplored Spain | Spanyolország | Raul Tomas Granizo | |
| 1. | Capuchin Culture | Egyesült Királyság | Luca Antonio Marino | 500 EUR szobor oklevél |
International Film Review – Documentaries - television productions/independent films
A díjat átadja Dányi Anita
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | Giant Slaves - Elephants in tourism industry | Magyarország | Csapó András és Mátai András | Zsűri különdíja: szobor és oklevél |
| 3. | Living With Volcanoes - Sacred Volcanoes | Franciaország | DAVID PERRIER, EDEN SHAVIT | |
| 2. | Undermined: Tales from the Kimberley | Ausztrália | Nicholas Wrathall | |
| 1. | Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish | Oroszország | Dmitriy Shpilenok | 500 EUR szobor oklevél |
International Film Review – Documentaries - short films
A díjat átadja Dányi Anita
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | The Housecats | Egyesült Királyság | Molly Hackett | |
| 2. | The Stork Saviours | India | Vijay Bedi , Ajay Bedi | |
| 1. | #Naturenow | Egyesült Királyság | Tom Mustill | 500 EUR szobor oklevél |
International Film Review – Documentaries
A díjat átadja Dányi Anita
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | You have done this, human! | Magyarország | Ljasuk Dimitry | |
| 2. | Tomorrow | Egyesült Államok | Oleg Shevchyshyn | |
| 1. | Art of Pollution | Magyarország | Radisics Milan | 500 EUR szobor oklevél |
International Film Review - Documentaries etud
A díjat átadja Dányi Anita
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | My adventures in teeneyworld | Magyarország | Ifj. Kollányi Ágoston | |
| 2. | Serengeti: Nature’s Living Laboratory | Egyesült Államok | Neil Losin | |
| 1. | Laws of the Lizard | Neil Losin, Nathan Dappen | 500 EUR szobor oklevél |
International Film Review – Travelogues and expediton documentaries
A díjat átadja Dányi Anita
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | That's Wild | Belgium | Michiel Thomas | |
| 2. | One in Eight Thousand | Mexikó | FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ PIÑA | |
| 1. | The Passage | Egyesült Államok | Nate Dappen | 500 EUR szobor oklevél |
International Film Review – Animations
A díjat átadja Dányi Anita
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | The Elephant's Song | Egyesült Államok | Lynn Tomlinson | |
| 2. | The Beauty | Németország | Pascal Schelbli | |
| 1. | The Turning Point | Egyesült Királyság | Steve Cutts | 500 EUR szobor oklevél |
Carpathian Basin Film Review - Nature films
A díjat átadja Juhász Árpád
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | Peaceful Glide | Sandi Novak | ||
| 2. | The Blonde Lake - Six Seasons of Lake Tisza | Magyarország | Szendőfi Balázs | |
| 1. | Wild forests, wild crags - In search of the phantom | Magyarország | Mosonyi Szabolcs | 500 eFt szobor oklevél |
Carpathian Basin Film Review – Nature films
A díjat átadja Juhász Árpád
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | Wild Horses – Behind the Scenes | Magyarország | Ljasuk Dimitry | |
| 2. | Calling for marching | Magyarország | Géza Rácz, Attila Lipcsei, Gábor Frank | |
| 1. | The Stone axe man 3. Mammoth hunt in Hungary | Magyarország | Gauder Áron | 500 eFt szobor oklevél |
Carpathian Basin Film Review – Documentaries
A díjat átadja Juhász Árpád
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | Poisoned Earth | Magyarország | Kővári Gábor Mihály, Iván Róbert | |
| 2. | My adventures in teeneyworld | Magyarország | Ifj. Kollányi Ágoston | |
| 1. | Close To The Wild - On The Path of Count Sigmund Széchenyi | Magyarország | Lerner János | 500 eFT szobor oklevél |
Carpathian Basin Film Review – Vidéki élet, hagyományok
A díjat átadja Juhász Árpád
| No. | English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | The Fili's conductor | Románia | Zsigmond Attila | |
| 2. | Kutizöld | Románia | Sáfrány József | |
| 1. | Brown trout, shallow waters | Románia | Szabó Attila | 500 eFT szobor oklevél |
Kárpát-medencei alkotói díj/EMMI különdíj
A díjat átadja Székelyhidi Tamás
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| My adventures in teeneyworld | Magyarország | Ifj. Kollányi Ágoston | 500 e Ft szobor oklevél |
Fiatal alkotóknak felajánlott díjak:
Fekete István-díj (kiemelkedő fiatal alkotói különdíj)/MMA
A díjat átadja Kovásznai-Száz Béla
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where Rivers Run Wild: Aqua Hungarica | Magyarország | Fehér Zoltán | 200 e Ft Oklevél |
Különdíjak
M5
A díjat átadja Bán János
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blonde Lake - Six Seasons of Lake Tisza | Magyarország | Szendőfi Balázs | Oklevél tárgyi |
SZIE
A díjat átadja Dr. Szabó István Oktatási rektorhelyettes
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| OzoneUniverse | Magyarország | Éry Márk és Rideg Richárd | Oklevél tárgyi |
Gödöllő Város Különdíja
A díjat átadja Bajkó Norbert
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean's Seven: The Hell of The North | Magyarország | Szentes Richard | Oklevél tárgyi |
Széchenyi Zsigmond emlékdíj - Alapította a Takarékbank 2019-ben
A díjat átadja Lombos-Kolyvek Léna
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ranger in Action | Magyarország | Tóth Zsolt Marcell | Oklevél 500 e Ft |
Európa Kék Szalagja, a Fesztivál Kárpát-medencei Filmszemle zsűrijének fődíja
A díjat átadja Gyenes Károly
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep inside, there are songs… | Magyarország | Mohi Sándor | oklevél 600 eFtmillió forint |
Kék Bolygó Klímavédelmi Alapítvány szakmai fődíja 2020 -megosztva-
A díjat átadja Krakkó Ákos
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art of Pollution | Magyarország | Radisics Milan | oklevél 1 millió forint- megosztva |
| Ranger in Action | Magyarország | Tóth Zsolt Marcell | oklevél 1 millió forint- megosztva |
Rockenbauer-emlékdíj
A díjat átadja Szabados Tamás
| English Title | Country | Director | Díj |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molnár Attila Dávid |
Jury of the Carpathian basin Film Review
Television journalist, leading editor of public media until 2016. She edited several public television programmes during her career in the past 25 years, she supervised Channel M2 for kids as an intendant and she was managing editor of the new Petőfi TV from its beginning. She also participated in the launch of several artistic and scientific-educational series as a cultural producer.
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He born in 1986, Budapest. He studied in the Eötvös Lóránd University Faculty of Humanities at French-cultural anthropology-Arabic course and finished the Hungarian Radio journalist school. He had scholarships in Nizza, Damascus and Brussels. He won the Great Academic Prize in 2007 and the Golden Pen Prize twice. From 1999 he works in the social media. He has been reporter, editor-presenter in the Hungarian Television, Petőfi, Bartók, Kossuth Radio and in the Duna Television. Between 2012 and 2015 he was the intendant of the Kossuth Radio. At the present, he is the main program consultant of the MTVA, the deputy-director of the Kossuth Channel. He holds lectures at the National University of Public Service and PhD student at the Eötvös Lóránd University Doctoral School of Literary Studies. He speaks French, English, German and Italian. Ha has made interviews with Dalai Lama, Charles Aznavour and Mireille Matthieu chanson singers and Juliette Binoche actress. He has participated in the filmmaking of many movies, like the „Egyharmadország” (2010) or „Sose akartam más lenni, mint katona (2018).
Operator
He has been in every continent – including the Antarctic - with the Hungarian Television camera. He has taken part in a wide variety of programs such as programs for children and art programs as operator. Live commentations of musical informatives, TV games and national events. (Mazsola film was his diploma work.) After meeting Pál Rockenbauer he specialised to nature film making. From 30 years he has been making only these programs. As director-operator he made 300 small movies. His most well-known film is the "Másfélmillió lépés Magyarországon" series (One and a half million steps in Hungary). Tamás ha won the Hungarian Heridity prize. Three years ago he has retired, only holds lectures in clubs, libraries trying to bring the focus to the nature, its conservation and to the fresh water. With his son he is the founder of the Pál Rockenbauer prize.
Ágnes is lucky and privileged while her job and passion are coincident. She has made shorter-longer movies for the Hungarian Television for 30 years, and later for different programs of the MTVA. The restless curiosity brought her closer to extraordinary people, landscapes and stories. She aimed that even more feelings and values could be showed to the viewer with the help of the technique. She believes that the filmmaking is responsibility: the pictures preserves the present, helps those people who are not at the present or behind us to improve and learn…or simply they are just beautiful.
rendező, operatőr, vágó
He born in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca), Transylvania and working as a film director, cameraman and producer. He finished the Cinematics University in 1999 as cameraman in János Xantusz class. Parallel to the university studies he participated as a permanent-freelancer colleague at the Duna Television works, where he later becomes director. After finishing the university, he directs documentaries. His main topic is about the destiny of the transborder Hungarian and the process of the determinative historical events. The most important aspect of his work to make these topics easily understandable and enjoyable for the youth. This has a great emphasis on his work as the director of documentary film festival and jury member. He works as a lecturer and communication trainer in film camps. He is the founder and the director of the Film.dok documentary film festival. Nowadays he has been making not only movies for younger generation but also applications within the cultural art field.
TransNatura fotóklub
He born in 18 January 1961, Barót (Transylvania) on the name day of Piroska. It was Wednesday, market day and strong cold. There have been many things changed. He studied in Barót, Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș) and Sepsiszentgyörgy (Sfântu Gheorghe), finished the university at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca). Ha has been renaissance musician, economical director, politician and program organiser. At the present, he is the director of the Vadon Egyesület leading a museum and a horse-riding school, organising exhibitions and scientific lectures and nature-photographer. He likes the baroque opera, the nature films and the books. In the spare time he goes fishing or hunting, and sometimes cooks as well.
Jury of the International Film Review
Antonin Haddad, Director and programmer since ten years of the "Festival International du Film d'Environnement FReDD" in France. Ingeneer training in rural development of suburbans areas and its links with the urban commercial short supply chain networks. Jury in several green film festival in the past (Ecozine, IIGFF, Cinemare, Life after Oil, GreenFest...). The FReDD festival is permanent member of the Green Film Network.
Peter O’Brien is an environmental media consultant, working with filmmakers and festival organizers to strengthen the impact of films about the environment. He has advised filmmakers and film festivals in the U.S. and internationally. From 2008-2014 he was Executive Director of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, and is currently a member of the EFF board of directors. He is also a board member of the Green Film Network, an international film festival consortium, and of the American Resilience Project, which produces media about climate change adaption in the U.S. He is an advisory committee member of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, and has served on numerous international film juries. A native of Washington, DC, he holds a B.A. in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University, and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
Senior Sales Executive
Hat Trick International Ltd. Hat Trick International [HTI] is the distribution arm of Hat Trick Productions, one of the UK's most successful independent production companies. Established in 1998 to represent Hat Trick's formats and finished programmes, HTI exploits all of Hat Trick's intellectual property, as well as that from third parties, including factual producers Plum Pictures, Emporium Productions, Keo Films, Outline Productions, Hungry Bear Media and Pulse Films. With more than 25 years experience in the programme distribution industry, Elfyn joined Hat Trick International in 2012. In his current role as Senior Sales Executive, Elfyn is responsible for selling finished programming and formats to a number of international territories, including Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS, Benelux, Italy and Latin America.
Prior to joining Hat Trick International, Elfyn held distribution positions at Granada International [now ITV Studios] for 8 years and at Chrysalis Distribution [now All3Media]
Director of Acquisitions and Business Development
Earth Touch is composed of three affiliated entities: production companies in Durban and Washington DC, and a sales and distribution office in London. Earth Touch is a specialist in factual production and distribution, in particular natural history documentary and factual entertainment series and films. It has an extensive archive of over 9000 hours of high-quality HD and UHD material, as well as over 300 hours of blue chip original programming.
Susan has over 20 years experience in the media industry. Susan joined Earth Touch in 2012 and in her current role - Director of Acquisitions and Business Development - she is responsible for working with producers internationally to represent their content in the international marketplace. Earth Touch work across a wide variety of factual genres and we are always on the lookout for quality, factual product to represent and distribute to our broadcast clients worldwide.
Prior to joining Earth Touch, Susan spent 2 years working at Discovery Channel (CEEMA – Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) as a channel and programming consultant. She also worked at BBC Worldwide (now BBC Studios) from 1996 to 2009 in various Programme Acquisition and Channel Management roles for the BBC’s international channels portfolio across Poland, Africa, Scandinavia, Asia, India and Latin America.
Eleonora started to work from 1988 at the Radio and Television Institute of Morelos as a writer, producer and presenter. In 2009, she co-founded Cinema Planeta, the International Festival of Environmental Films of Mexico which she has co-directed ever since. From 2011 to 2013, she hosted a film program on the news channel TVC Ambientales. She is founder and board member of the Green Film Network as well as the Culture Seminar of Mexico, Chapter Cuernavaca, and the Mexican Film Festivals Network. Since 2010, she´s ben part of juries for environmental film festivals in France, Italy, Brazil, and Portugal. In 2016, produced and co-directed her first feature film “Nahui Ollin, Sol de Movimiento,” which deals with the topic of climate change in Mexico. In 2018, she once again brings attention to the impact of climate change with her documentary “El mar incendiado” (The burnt sea). She starts with several activists in Morelos the anti-plastics group with which it has been possible to ban single use plastic, polystyrene, straws and plastic bags in her region and 29 of the 32 states of the country.
As Head of Infotainment Portfolio, László Gáspár is responsible for the programming and acquisition strategy of AMC Networks Central Europe’s factual channels, among them Spektrum, one of Hungary’s leading documentary channel. With 14 years of marketing background in various industries - among them filmmaking and television – László took over the programming duties of Spektrum in 2012. Since then he has been working on building a strong library of nature and wildlife, history, science and technology programmes, which he acquires from the world’s biggest content providers and distributors. He is also active in developing Spektrum TV’s local productions and thus he is involved in many productions of Hungarian filmmakers.
For more than a decade she has been working for the Hungarian public service media as a festival manager. During her career, she has managed the international participation and promotion of many Hungarian productions including fiction, documentary and nature films, as well. She has contributed to the international successes of several nature films and has a wide range of experience in the field of nature and science film festivals. Currently, she is the International Director of the Hungarian Paralympic Committee.
