Sándor Csortos Szabó

Filmmaker, photographer, and head of Budapest Film Produkció. He graduated in Interior Design from the former Hungarian College of Applied Arts, now known as the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME).

He began his career as an interior designer, but soon shifted his focus to photography, working for various magazines before joining advertising agencies. Over the years, he worked as a copywriter, art director, and later as a creative director.

It was during this period that he became involved in television, producing entertainment programs. His first independently produced television show aired in 1997. Since then, he has produced portrait films, cultural programs, documentaries, daily and weekly television series, as well as feature films.

The films he has produced have received numerous prestigious awards, including the Hungarian Film Award (2022, 2023), the Silver Gerely Award (2019), the Zoltán Huszárik Award (2015), awards at the Hungarian Film Week (2010), and the EuroMedia Awards (2010). His films have also been selected for competition at international film festivals in Monte Carlo, Uppsala, Seoul, and Sarajevo.

He is a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.

Can Togay

Can Togay (Budapest, 1955) is a film director, writer, actor, media artist, and cultural professional. He studied at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, and Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris.

As an actor, he has appeared in numerous Hungarian and international films. As a director, his first feature film was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, while another of his works received an award at the Sochi International Film Festival. He has written and dramaturged numerous films, and his writings have been published in journals as well as in independent volumes.

Between 2008 and 2014, he served as Director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Berlin (Collegium Hungaricum Berlin). He subsequently taught story and project development for several years at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam.

From 2019, he worked as Cultural and Creative Chief Advisor for the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture programme, contributing to the development and implementation of the region’s cultural strategy.

He currently teaches at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and the University of Pannonia. A major focus of his work is the exploration of the human and creative applications of artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on story development, education, and artistic practices.

Together with his collaborators, he is currently working on a collective autofiction documentary film. He is co-creator of the “Shoes on the Danube Bank” memorial. His AI-assisted photographic works have been exhibited in several exhibitions; most recently, a selection of his works was presented at the Photo Salon of the Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest).

He is the recipient of the Béla Balázs Award and the Pro Urbe Budapest Award.

Edit Cservenka

Edit Cservenka is a painter who graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where she studied under József Gaál and received her degree in painting in 2019. She later expanded her qualifications by earning a degree in art education. During her studies, she also broadened her professional perspective as an exchange student at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Her artistic achievements have been recognized with numerous awards. In 2025, she was awarded the three-year Artistic Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. Earlier distinctions include the Young Painters' Excellence Award (2024), the Searching for T-Art Award (2022), the prestigious Barcsay Award (2020), as well as several professional recognitions at the Fehérvár Salon.

Cservenka's artistic practice brings together a deep respect for the Old Masters with the freedom of contemporary abstraction. Her work focuses on the transformation of the human figure and the intimacy of interior spaces. Through the interplay between amorphous figures and carefully structured spatial compositions, she creates distinctive works imbued with a metaphysical atmosphere.

Edit Cservenka currently lives and works in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, where, alongside her artistic practice, she also contributes to the local cultural community through her work as an art educator.