Csaba Bollók graduated as a film and television director at the Hungarian Academy of Film and Drama, studied filmmaking in the United States, and made shorts at the legendary Béla Balázs Stúdió in the 1990’s. His features earned many home and international prizes, among them the European Discovery of the Year (2007). In 2019, two of his works, “Silent Years” and “Iszka’s Journey” have been selected as essential Hungarian movies by the National Film Archive. He is a teacher and leads workshops worldwide in screenwriting and independent and analogue filmmaking.