Meggyes Krisztina

Krisztina Meggyes is a freelance film director and producer. She received her Master’s Degree in Documentary Directing from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest in 2015. Since then, she worked as director and producer in several documentary films and documentary series. Since 2015 she also works as a lecturer at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, teaching Ethics in documentary films and directing techniques at field work exercise. Parallel she is studying on the DLA program where she researches the social impact and ethics in documentary films. In 2017 she co-founded Little Bus Production, a production company based in Hungary that focuses mainly on young talents both from the documentary and the fiction film field, since then she mainly works as producer.

Studies:
2017 – University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, doctoral studies (research field: social impact of documentaries)
2012-2014 University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, documentary directing, MA
2009-2012 University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, television productions, BA

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

I HAVEN’T DIED (feature-length documentary, in production, producer, production company: Match Frame Productions, supported by Hungarian National Film Institute)
HATCHERY (feature-length documentary, in production, producer, production company: Little Bus Production, supported by Hungarian National Film Institute)
LIKE A CHILD – JULI FÁBIÁN (documentary, 2019, producer and scriptwriter, 66 min, production company: Színfolt Film&Little Bus Production, supported by the Hungarian Media Patronage Programme)
A portrait of a jazz and pop singer who had a unique voice and left a huge emptiness after her early death.
PÉCSI GRAIL (documentary, 2019, producer, 73 min, production company: Színfolt Film&Little Bus Production, supported by the Hungarian Media Patronage Programme)
A fiction documentary that investigates the mystery of the outstanding number of musicians in the Hungarian city, Pécs.
MY FATHER’S DAUGHTER (feature-length documentary, in development, producer, production company: Little Bus Production, supported by Hungarian National Film Institute’s Incubator Program 2020)
DEAR MARIKA (feature-length fiction, in development, producer, production company: Little Bus Production, selected by Hungarian Film Fund’s Incubator Program 2019, supported by Slovak Kult Minor Fund)
MISSING 10 HOURS (feature-length documentary, in production, director, production company: Match Frame Productions, supported by HBO Europe, Creative Europe Media, Hungarian National Film Fund)
VIOLENT HUMAN (documentary series, 2016, production manager, 5*24 min, AMC Networks Central Europe)
The series is based on Steven Pinker, Harvard professor’s book and introduces the evolution of violence in our society.
THOSE (short documentary, 2015, director, 28 min, University of Theatre and Film Arts)
A sarcastic portrait of a small village where the quiet life is stirred by the threat of the arrival of immigrants.
DAY 791 (short documentary, 2014, director, 13 min, University of Theatre and Film Arts)
The film shows the last day of an inmate in the Youth Prison of Tököl, and the inhuman circumstances these boys are hold in for years.