Katalin Oláh

Kata Oláh, a Hungarian filmmaker based in Budapest, shifted from producing to directing and co-founded the award-winning Makabor Studio with her cinematographer husband. Since 2012, they’ve produced numerous documentaries and short films, broadcast on Hungarian TV and screened internationally. Oláh has been nominated several times by the Hungarian Film Academy as Best Director and won Best Editor in the documentary category in 2019. Her feature “The Bar Mitzvah Boys” was nominated for Prix Europa 2018, and her short “Mignon” won Best Short Documentary at BIDF 2019. In 2022, she received the Fipresci Prize for “Conquering Time –Ágnes Keleti”.