Filmmakers

George Perrin - director/cinematographer

George Perrin is an English-Hungarian filmmaker born in 1981 and raised in Budapest, Hungary. Emanating from a childhood interest in photography he has been making short films and documentaries since 2003.

Following in his father's footsteps he became a bellringer at the age of 10. His enthusiasm for film making and bellringing was finally combined, and after two years of planning and fund raising, filming took place from July to October 2006. His most notable films are:

4th Dan (2010, short fiction) http://www.kendoshortfilm.com - Budapest Independent Film Festival 2010: best cinematography
Immersed / Szakadás (2007, short fiction) - Union International du Cinéma (UNICA) Festival 2008: best film, Budapest International Short Film Festival 2007: best cinematography, Hungarian Society of Cinematographers (HSC) Aranyszem (Golden Eye) 2007 nomination, 39th Hungarian Filmweek: honorable mention, Budapest Independent Film Festival 2008: 2nd prize, 55th National Independent Film Festival: best actress award for Judit Fodor
Lost to Sight / Mélypont (2003, experimental short) - MAFSZ short film contest 2003: first prize, in competition at the 35th Hungarian Filmweek

Balázs Alpár - music composer

Balázs Alpár was born in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary. He began his musical studies at the age of six, and is currently enrolled at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music as a student of composition. He also studied at the Media Composition Department of the University of Music in Vienna.

He composes music for various musical formations, experimenting with different genres.

Since 2000 he has been the composer and leader of the Fugato Orchestra, a 15-member chamber orchestra.

(http://www.fugato.org)

Fugato’s first album was published in October 2004 and received outstanding international reviews. It won the Audience Award of the Budapest Spring Festival in 2006.