Bence Gyöngyössy

Bence Gyöngyössy (born 26 November 1963 in Budapest) Balázs Béla-díj winning Hungarian film producer, film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and actor.

Career His parents were Imre Gyöngyössy (1930–1994), Balázs Béla-díj winning film director, poet and Katalin Petényi (1941 –), art historian, film director, screenwriter and editor. He began his secondary school education at the Madách Imre Gimnázium in Budapest, where he attended from 1978 to 1980. In 1980, he moved with his parents to Munich, where he lived until 1997. He graduated from the American High School's Geneva University's international baccalaureate of Munich International School.

From 1983 to 1988, he was a student of communication drama at LMU Munich. From 1988 to 1994 he studied directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). Since 1983, he has been active in various film and television productions on all five continents. Over the years he has gained experience not only as a film director and scriptwriter, but also as a production manager, film producer and cinematographer.

Filmography

Producer

Száműzöttek (1991) Halál sekély vízben (1994) Ámbár tanár úr (1998) Hippolyt (1999) Meseautó (2000) Hal a tortán – tv sorozat (2008) A feltaláló (2020) Academy Award (Oscar), (Hungarian nomination) – Best Foreign Language Film category International Film Festival, Tokyo Alexandria International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize Balázs Béla-díj (2019)