Ugrin Julianna

Filmography

Liquid Gold – documentary – 77 min – 2019

TO PRODUCE THE LIQUID GOLD THAT WILL STUN THE WORLD WILL BE NO SMALL FEAT, BUT ISTVÁN SZEPSY, THE KING OF ASZÚ, AS THEY CALL HIM, HAS A UNIQUE BUT RISKY STRATEGY. WILL THE GREAT WINE BE REBORN OR WILL IT BE CONSIGNED TO THE HISTORY BOOKS FOREVER? THIS DOCUMENTARY IS A TRUE EASTERN EUROPEAN STORY OF HIGH HOPES, GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND THE STRUGGLE OF THE UNDERDOG.

CineFest Miskolci Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál 2019

Director: Tamás Almási
Cast: István Szepsy, László Alkonyi, András Bacsó
Producer: Julianna Ugrin
Creative producer: Edit Ditz
Music: László Dés
Cinematographer: Márton Vízkelety
Editor: László Hargittai H.S.E.
Sound designer: Gábor Balázs H.A.E.S.
Production manager: Ágnes Böjte

Above the Line – documentary – 71 min – 2019

Above the Line is a documentary which follows the fight of two swimmer sisters for the Olympic medal through which they hope to accomplish their mother’s dream.

rendező/director: Nagy Anikó Mária
producer: Ugrin Julianna
társproducer/associate producer: Zurbó Zsófia
forgatókönyvíró/screenplay: Nagy Anikó Mária
operatőr/DOP: Bartos Bence
hangmérnök/sound design: Várhegyi Rudolf
vágó/edirot: Bartos Bence
zeneszerző/composer: Sperling Andor

Easy Lessons – documentary – 78 min. – 2018

Easy Lessons is a poetic journey of a beautiful, young girl, Kafia who on the brink of adulthood breaks up with everything she grew up with in Somalia. Cultural values, taboos and dogmas fall apart in the most casual situations while trying to adapt to a new life in Europe, Hungary. Her Mum helped her escape her fate but how can she explain the changes she lives through to her most loved one? She wants to do it for a sense of duty or a desire of resurrection, but how… This inner struggle becomes the film itself and maybe the only form of confession.

Locarno – Semaine de la Critique
Sarajevo IFF
Camden FF (USA)

alkotók:
rendező/director: Zurbó Dorottya
producer: Ugrin Julianna
operatőr/DOP: Natasha Pavlovskaya
hangmérnök/sound design: Várhegyi Rudolf
vágó/editor: Sass Péter
zeneszerző/composer: Balázs Ádám

A Woman Captured – documentary – 89 min – 2017

A Woman Captured is about Marish, a 52-year-old Hungarian woman who has been serving a family for a decade, working 20 hours a day – without getting paid. Her ID was taken from her by her oppressors and she’s not allowed to leave the house without permission. Treated like an animal, she only gets leftovers to eat and no bed to sleep in. Marish spends the days with fear in her heart, but dreaming of getting her life back. The presence of the camera helps her realize she isn’t completely alone. She begins to show signs of trust; after 2 years of shooting, she gathers her courage and reveals her plan: “I am going to escape.” Tuza-Ritter’s film follows Marish’s heroic journey back to freedom.

IDFA – main competition 2017
Sundance – World Cinema Documentary Competition 2018
European Film Award nominee – for best European documentary 2018

rendező/director: Tuza-Ritter Bernadett
producer: Ugrin Julianna, Kiss Viki Réka
co-producer: Eric Winker (Corso Film)
operatőr/DOP: Tuza-Ritter Bernadett
vágó/editor: Tuza-Ritter Bernadett
hangmérnök/sound design: Bohács Tamás, Kristóf Márton
zene/music: Kalotás Csaba

The Next Guardian – documentary – 75 min – 2017

In a remote village in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, Gyembo (16) and his sister Tashi (15) aimlessly roam while their father meticulously polishes the ancient relics inside the altar of their private monastery. This family has been taking care of the temple from one generation to the next for thousands of years. Unlike their father whose life revolves around the monastery, Gyembo and Tashi have grown up with desires that go beyond the confines of this sacred place. While Gyembo wants to become a football player he is also the only confidante for Tashi who identifies herself as a transgender. Following tradition, the father wants Gyemboto carry on the family heritage. He genuinely believes that the only way for Gyembo to accumulate good Karma is to leave school and dedicate his life towards religion and becoming the next guardian. This film explores the irony of two generations with contrasting dreams living alongside each other. The outcome of the generation gap is a bittersweet story of a family caught in a time clash.

IDFA – first appearance competition 2017
True False – Main Competition 2018

rendező/director: Dorottya Zurbó and Arun Bhattarai
producer: Ugrin Julianna
operatőr/DOP: Arun Bhattarai
vágó/editor: Szalai Károly
hangmérnök/sound design: Várhegyi Rudolf
gyártásvezető: Zurbó Zsófia

The Letters – shortfilm – 20 min – 2016

One autumn day Zolika, the 12 year old orphan starts to receive mysterious letters from his ‘new parents’. Happiness is just two weeks away. Or is it?

Director: Teréz Koncz
Producer: Julianna Ugrin
Executive producer: Gustav Andersson, Judit Romwalter
Director of Photography: Zoltán Dévényi
Editor: László Hargittai
Sound mixer: Tamás Stéger
Music: Béla Barabás, Tamás Simó

Train to Adulthood – documentary 79 min – 2015

The pioneer railway where children can be engine drivers or conductors, sell tickets or dispatch trains used to be the dream of every boy (and many girls) between Leipzig and Vladivostok. The Budapest twins Viktor and Karmen and their friend Gergő, too, operate old fashioned switches, levers and telephones, line up for the flag ceremony and sing the old hymn around the camp fire: “The pioneers’ land is full of happy tunes…” What could easily have been an exercise in sugary and phony nostalgia unfolds as a nuanced and sensitive coming of age drama – and not a happy one. Because the three of them, all on the threshold of adulthood, must shoulder responsibilities not only at the railway: they were confronted with the tough reality of capitalism at an early age. The twins’ single mother works hard but earns hardly enough to buy food, and the family are losing the roof over their heads. As for Gergő, he lives with his grandparents because his parents are forced to work abroad and he must decide whether this will be his future too, Klára Trencsényi shows a world in which a relic from the past is the only thing that offers security on the road to the future, while all the institutions that are supposed to do this are absent. The image of the rolling train as a symbol of longing acquires a different meaning – a bitter railway romanticism.

DOK Leipzig 2015 – Golden Dove Award – Next Masters Competition
Zagreb DOX 2016 – Special Jury prize

rendező/director: Trencsényi Klára
producer: Ugrin Julianna
operatőr/DOP: Vízkelety Márton, Trencsényi Klára
hangmérnök/soundman: Várhegyi Rudolf
vágó/editor: Czakó Judit
zeneszerző/composer: Sperling Andor

HOT Men, COLD dictatorships – documentary – 90 min – 2015

A feature documentary, dealing with the personal dramas of gay men living in communist Hungary. Has the situation of gay men improved since the fall of communism or homophobia is even worse today?
HOT Men COLD Dictatorships is the first documentary produced in our region that deals with the generations of older and younger gay men. We feel that it is important to preserve these life stories now while we have the opportunity to interview the older members of our community. It is also exciting how the young generation, who appear in the film as the investigators discuss what they hear through their personal experiences and via interpreting social conventions.

rendező/director: Takács Mária
producer: Ugrin Julianna
operatőr/DOP: Vízkelety Márton, Trencsényi Klára, Szőnyi István
hangmérnök/soundman: Almásy Péter
vágó/editor: Palotai Éva
zene: Jiří Kadeřábek

Stream of Love – documentary – 70 min – 2013

Love and desire fill the minds of villagers in a Hungarian speaking village in Transylvania, Romania, even in their old age. Time has stood still here, and although most of the village’s inhabitants are elderly, they are refreshingly young at heart.
Feri, for example, is an incurable romantic. Way past his 80th year, he’s still making moves on the village’s 25 widows – although he claims that only two or three of them are really worth the effort. And the women speak plainly when sharing their most intimate thoughts and dreams to the camera.
Stream of Love is funny, surprising and heartwarming, revealing how these tragicomic tales prove the ancient game of love and romance is still being played in this remote village, with its aura of bygone days.

rendező/director: Sós Ágnes
producer: Sós Ágnes, Ugrin Julianna
operatőr/DOP: Sós Ágnes, Lovasi Zoltán, Petróczy András
hangmérnök/soundman: Zányi Tamás
vágó/editor: Thomas Ernst
zeneszerző/composer: Másik János