JÁNOS SZÁSZ
Theatre and film director János Szász staged the acclaimed A.R.T. productions of The Seagull, Desire Under the Elms, Uncle Vanya, Marat/Sade and Mother Courage and Her Children. He studied drama and staging at the Academy of Theatre and Film Art in Budapest where he currently teaches. His theatre work in Hungary includes Ibsen's Ghosts, Gozzi's The King Stag, Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Brecht's Baal and Mother Courage, Weiss's Marat/Sade, and he is currently preparing A Streetcar Named Desire for Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. to be presented this spring. Mr. Szász's films include Woyzeck, which won twenty different prizes at fifty-five international film festivals across Europe, including the European Film Academy Award (FELIX) for Best New European Film in Berlin and Special Prize of the Jury, Bergamo; and was the Hungarian nominee for the Oscars; The Witman Boys, also presented at more than fifty international film festivals, the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival and winner of several awards including Best Director at the Moscow International Film Festival, and the main prize at the Ghent Film Festival (also the Hungarian nominee for the Oscars); and Szédülés (Don't Disturb), receiving the Best Director Prize, Bogota, Venezuela and Best Foreign Film, Bratislava. Mr. Szász received a special commendation as one of the world's ten up and coming film directors of the world at the Sundance Festival and Variety in 1998. He recently completed Eyes of the Holocaust, a documentary film about the Hungarian holocaust produced by Steven Spielberg for the Shoah Foundation, which was presented at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival this fall. He is a member of the European Film Academy.
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