Diana Groó
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| Born | 10 September 1973 Budapest, Hungary |
| Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1992–present |
Diana Groó (born 10 September 1973) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Education
In 1992 Groó attended JATE BTK and ELTE BTK where she studied French Language and Judaism. Beside her university studies she worked as assistant director of Judit Elek and Pál Schiffer at Hunnia Filmstúdió. In 1995 she was admitted to Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest where she studied directing in the class of Sándor Simó.
Career
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[1] (together with Attila Kékesi) and the short film Melody of the street[2] (1999). Groó earned her MA in film directing in 2000. After graduation she co-founded Katapult Film Production company[3] along with her director fellows (Ferenc Török, György Pálfi, Szabolcs Hajdu, Bence Miklauzic, Dániel Erdélyi, Gábor Fischer, Csaba Fazekas). Between 2001-2006 she turned to making experimental animation and she directed Wild Imagination[4][5] an experimental art-history series about Marc Chagall, P. Auguste Renoir, Henrie Rousseau, Pieter Bruegel and Lajos Gulácsy. 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.[6] Her feature debut, Miracle in Cracow[7][8][9] (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. Her second feature film, Vespa[10][11][12] (2010), a Hungarian-Serbian road movie featuring a Romani teenager won the Unicef Award of Terra di Siena Film Festival, the Dialogue Prize for Intercultural Communication at the Filmfestival Cottbus[13] and the Prix du Reflet d’Or for best direction at the Geneva International Film Festival Cinema Tous Ecrans.[14] Groó's poetic documentary Regina[15][16][17][18][19][20] (2013) based on a single photograph tells the story of Regina Jonas, the world's first woman rabbi. 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[21][22][23] (English voiceover) and Martina Gedeck (German voiceover) as the voice of Regina Jonas. George Weisz the father of actress Rachel Weisz was the film's executive producer. Screened at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at UNESCO[24] (2014), at the Library of Congress (2014) and deposited in the Visual Center Collection at Yad Vashem.[25]
In 2013 she co-founded DunaDock Master Class[26] International Documentary Forum, along with Julianna Ugrin producer, Klára Trencsényi director and Ágnes Böjte executive producer.
Theatre
In 2008 Diana directed Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's prophetic epistolary novel Address Unknown in Spinóza Theatre Budapest, which was staged first time in Hungary.[27] The play ran for more than 8 years starring with János Kulka, Zsolt László and Kata Pető.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Genre | Awards / Notes |
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| 2013 | Regina | documentary |
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| 2012 | Between Mountains and Seas / Child of Picasso: " Gaya" | documentary | |
| 2010 | Vespa | feature |
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| 2010 | Eldorado | short | |
| 2006 | Wild Imagination /
The Garden of the Magician |
experimental |
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| 2006 | Urlicht | short | |
| 2006 | What Lies Ahead | documentary |
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| 2004 | Miracle in Cracow | feature |
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| 2004 | Wild Imagination / Rousseaus's Dreams | experimental |
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| 2004 | Wild Imagination / Flemish Proverbs - Bruegel's Dreams | experimental |
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| 2003 | Wild Imagination / Renoir's Dreams | experimental |
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| 2001 | Over the Village - Chagall's Dreams | experimental | |
| 2001 | Córesz / Ways | documentary |
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| 1999 | Melody of the Street | short | |
| 1998 | Blue Eyes | TV | |
| 1997 | Ottavio | documentary |
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| 1996 | Trapé | documentary | |
| 1995 | Oncle Zsiga | documentary | |
| 1992 | Annuska | short |
References
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Eshkolotnew (4 November 2011), Melody of the Street, retrieved 28 November 2017
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- ^ "A Miracle in Cracow - Hungarian National Film Fund". Hungarian National Film Fund. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Portuges, Catherine. Cinematic Memory of the Holocaust in: Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe. U of Nebraska Press. p. 295.
- ^ Gro, Diana (26 September 2006), A Miracle in Cracow (in Hungarian), Vanguard Cinema, retrieved 26 November 2017
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- ^ "Vespa". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Cottbus". filmunio.eu. 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Cinema Tous Ecrans 2010 / Vespa: Compétition Longs Métrages". www.tous-ecrans.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Joseph, Anne (26 May 2014). "'Regina' depicts world's first woman rabbi, killed in Holocaust". The Times Of Israel. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Honoring unjustly forgotten foremothers". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Regina Jonas was Ordained in 1935 and Died at Auschwitz. Now, Her Memory is Finally Being Honored". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Regina: The First Woman Rabbi - BBC Four". BBC. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Meet on Screen the First Woman Rabbi". Lilith Magazine. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "New York Jewish Film Festival 2014 - Critic's Choices - Independent Magazine". Independent Magazine. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "rachel-weisz-s-father-makes-his-movie-debut". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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- ^ "A heroine almost lost to history: Exclusive interview with Rachel Weisz – Published in Metro". Etan Smallman. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2014 | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ "The Visual Center - Online Film Database - Query Results". db.yadvashem.org. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ "Duna Dock". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ^ "Színház - Szomorú győzelem - Kressman Taylor: Címzett ismeretlen". magyarnarancs.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "פסטיבל 2013". Jerusalem Film Festival. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Vespa - Hungarian National Film Fund". Hungarian National Film Fund. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Ročník 2001 • Art Film Fest". Art Film Fest (in Slovak). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Over the Village - Chagall's Dreams - Hungarian National Film Fund". Hungarian National Film Fund. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Ročník 1999 • Art Film Fest". Art Film Fest (in Slovak). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "The Winners of the Molodist-1999 Festival - MOLODIST international film festival". 9 March 2016. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Motovun Film Festival". www.redirekt.net. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ "Ročník 1997 • Art Film Fest". Art Film Fest (in Slovak). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "MEDIAWAVE 1997 AWARDS". mediawavefestival. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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