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Diana Groó

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The native form of this personal name is Groó Diana. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Diana Groó
Born
Budapest, Hungary
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter
Years active1992–present

Diana Groó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.

Education

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In 1992 Groó attended JATE BTK and ELTE BTK where she studied French language and Hebrew studies. Beside her university studies she worked as assistant director of Judit Elek and Pál Schiffer at Hunnia Filmstúdió. From 1995 till 2000, she did her BA and MA from Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. In 2018, she completed her Doctor of Liberal Arts from University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest.[1]

Career

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Groó's first success came with the short documentary Trapé (1996), which was her first year exam work at the Film Academy. The film tells the story of Erwino, a 70 year old Hungarian trapeze artist of a travelling circus, who decided to perform his show again after a long break. Groó followed her protagonist and lived with the travelling circus for 6 months which was made her possible to film not only the eagerly awaited moment of the premiere but also to reveal the secret Nazi past of the old artist. Groó received her first festival recognition for this documentary at Art Film Fest in 1997. The Award for the Best Newcomer was given by Geraldine Chaplin and Krzysztoff Zanussi. During her film studies she directed the award-winning short documentary Ottavio (together with Attila Kékesi) and the short film Melody of the street (1999).[2][3] Groó earned her MA in film directing in 2000. After graduation she co-founded Katapult Film Production company along with her director fellows (Ferenc Török, György Pálfi, Szabolcs Hajdu, Bence Miklauzic, Dániel Erdélyi, Gábor Fischer, Csaba Fazekas).[4] Between 2001-2006 she turned to making experimental animation and she directed Wild Imagination, an experimental art-history series about Marc Chagall, P. Auguste Renoir, Henrie Rousseau, Pieter Bruegel and Lajos Gulácsy.[5][6] In 2005 the first four episodes of the series opened the contemporary art exhibition of Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. The series was selected into the InterMedia courses of Haifa University along with the works of Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman and others.[7]

Her feature debut, Miracle in Cracow (2004), a piece of Jewish magical realism (starring Jerzy Trela, Franciszek Pieczka, Stanisława Celińska, Itala Békés, Eszter Bíró, Maceiej Adamczyk) was co-produced by Krzysztof Zanussi.[8][9][10] Her second feature film, Vespa (2010), a Hungarian-Serbian road movie featuring a Romani teenager won the Unicef Award of Terra di Siena Film Festival, and the Prix du Reflet d’Or for best direction at the Geneva International Film Festival Cinema Tous Ecrans.[11][12][13][14] Groó's poetic documentary Regina (2013) based on a single photograph tells the story of Regina Jonas, the world's first woman rabbi.[15][16] Winner of the Lia Award at 30th Jerusalem Film Festival, the Warsaw Phoenix Award of Jewish Motifs International Film Festival (2014), Jury Award of 1.st Moscow Jewish Film Festival and featuring Rachel Weisz (English voiceover) and Martina Gedeck (German voiceover) as the voice of Regina Jonas.[17][18][19] George Weisz the father of actress Rachel Weisz was the film's executive producer. Screened at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at UNESCO (2014), at the Library of Congress (2014) and deposited in the Visual Center Collection at Yad Vashem.[20][21]

In 2013, she co-founded DunaDock Master Class International Documentary Forum, along with Julianna Ugrin producer, Klára Trencsényi director and Ágnes Böjte executive producer.[22] In 2018, she became the Head of the Film and Media Specialization at Budapest Metropolitan University.[1][23]

Theatre

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In 2008 Diana directed Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's prophetic epistolary novel Address Unknown in Spinóza Theatre Budapest, which was staged first time in Hungary.[24] The play ran for more than 8 years starring with János Kulka, Zsolt László and Kata Pető.

Filmography

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Year Title Genre Awards / Notes
2013 Regina documentary
  • Lia Award 30. - Jerusalem Film Festival 2013[25]
  • Best Film - Art Film Festival Szolnok, Hungary 2013
  • Hungarian Filmcritic's Award 2014
  • Warsaw Phoenix Award - Warsaw Jewish Motifs Film Festival 2014
  • Jury Award - 1.st Moscow Jewish Film Festival
2012 Between Mountains and Seas / Child of Picasso: " Gaya" documentary
2010 Vespa feature
  • Best Actor - Hungarian Film Festival 2010
  • Best Music - Hungarian Film Festival 2010
  • UNICEF Special Award -Terra di Siena International Filmfestival 2010
  • Reflet d'Or, Best director - Cinéma Tous Écrans, 2010
  • Dialogue Prix - Cottbus International Film Festival, 2010
  • Best Film - 10th.Hungarian Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2010
  • Best Youth Actor - Olympia Film Festival, Greece 2011[12]
2010 Eldorado short
2006 Wild Imagination /

The Garden of the Magician

experimental
  • FIPA - Biarritz 2007, in competition
2006 Urlicht short
2006 What Lies Ahead documentary
  • Audience Award -Versio Human Rights Film Festival, Budapest 2007
2004 Miracle in Cracow feature
  • Best Producer Award for Gábor Garami- Hungarian Film Festival 2005
  • Golden Remi Award - Houston Worldfest 2005
2004 Wild Imagination / Rousseaus's Dreams experimental
  • Golden Chest - Plovdiv International TV Film Festival 2004
2004 Wild Imagination / Flemish Proverbs - Bruegel's Dreams experimental
  • Best Experimental - Camera Hungaria 2005
2003 Wild Imagination / Renoir's Dreams experimental
  • Best Experimental - Antalya Golden Orange International Film Festival 2003
  • Silver Remi-Award - Houston Worldfest 2004
2001 Over the Village - Chagall's Dreams experimental
  • FICC Award - Kosice International Art Film Festival 2001[26]
  • Best European Video - Malaga Unicaja Video Festival 2001
  • Best Experimental - Evora International Short Film Festival 2002[27]
2001 Córesz / Ways documentary
  • Doc Leipzig 2002
1999 Melody of the Street short
  • Best Film "On the Road" - Art Film Festival 1999[28]
  • OCIC Special Mention - Molodist International Film Festival 1999[29]
  • Grand Prix - 1st Hungarian Ecumenical Film Festival 1999
1998 Blue Eyes TV
1997 Ottavio documentary
  • The Propeller Award - Motovun Film Festival 1999[30]
1996 Trapé documentary
  • Best Short Documentary - Hungarian Film Festival 1997
  • Best Film "On the Road" - Kosice International Art Film Festival 1997[31]
  • Best Youth Documentary - Mediawave 1997[32]
  • Best Youth Documentary - Hungarian Filmcritics' Award 2000[33]
1995 Oncle Zsiga documentary
1992 Annuska short

References

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  22. ^ "DunaDOCK - idén először" [DunaDOCK - for the first time this year]. Index (in Hungarian). 4 September 2013.
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