Occupation Film director | Years active 2006−present | |
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Born 6 June 1981 (age 35) ( 1981-06-06 ) Budapest, Hungary Movies The Winner, Blood and High Heels Similar Iván Kamarás, Sonia Couling, Ádám Neményi | ||
Dávid Géczy (born 6 June 1981) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
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Life
Géczy Dávid was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. His interest in movies began when he was young. He worked in video stores, cinemas and for Film Magazines.
He graduated in Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Aesthetics and Communication Studies (Film, TV specialization) in 2006.
His father, Géczy Bálint is a film- and TV producer, PR expert, Deputy Head of Directorate-General of the Hungarian Press and Communication. His grandfather, Géczy József was a writer and poet.
Career
After graduating from university, he directed TV shows, advertisements and commercials for the internet and around 60 television channels. In 2007 his first short movie, Hangár was shot. He was the co-director of the play Hamlet-illúziók (Hamlet-illusions) which was a uniqe combination of theater and movie tools.
He has directed national and international videoclips and also an authentically reconstructed documentary: Csepeli kettős gyilkosság (Double murder in Csepel), based on a crime in 2009 (similar to the investigative documentaries produced by BBC Crime).
Since 2013 he has been involved in more image spots of Liszt Academy of Music. The first image clip of Academy, called Lisztérium - Ahol él a zene (Lisztery - where the music lives), was directed by Dávid in 2015. This clip was presented by Mezzo TV and BBC and won the following Awards in that year:
Silver Hugo Award in 51st Chicago International Film Festival, Red Dot Award in 60th Red Dot Design Award, 12. Golden Eye Cinematographer Festival’s Award in Advertisement Category, organised by Hungarian Society of Cinematographers.
This short movie has also contributed Liszt Academy of Music to receive Design Management Award of Hungarian Design Council.
In 2012 his third short movie, Vér és tűsarok (Blood and High Heels) attended in Short Film Corner Programme of Cannes Film Festival.
He had got government financial support for shooting A győztes (The winner) short movie in 2013. The movie was selected in Odense International Film Festival Programme in 2015 and also was selected in BestOFF15 selection of the Festival organiser Danish Film Institute, among the best 11 movies. The film was one of the four Hungarian films that were selected into the Special Screening section as the focus of the 12th Akbank Short Film Festival (2016) in Turkey. Géczy Dávid were invited to take part in the roundtable-discussion called Experiences as well as Elma Tataragic (curator of Sarajevo Film Festival), Carter Pilcher (CEO and funder of ShortsTV International) and Gábor Hörcher (Hungarian director).