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Géza M. Tóth
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Géza M. Tóth

Hungarian filmmaker (born 1970)

Géza M. Tóth (born 16 June 1970) is a Hungarian filmmaker, producer and animator. Academy Award-nominated Hungarian film director and producer.2

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Born Jun 16, 1970.1

About

Founder and director of KEDD Animation Studio. University professor.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedMoholy-Nagy University of Art and Design3

Career

Occupation: film editor, film producer, screenwriter, animator, university teacher, director, film director.5

As a Filmmaker

As a director, producer, and production designer, he is the creator of independent short films, children's animations, theatre and opera productions, as well as educational films.

His works have successfully featured in over 250 international film festivals, winning nearly 120 awards. His debut work, The Rat Catcher (Patkányfogó, 1992), premiered in the competition program of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. His 1996 film Icarus (Ikarosz) was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), while his 2005 animated short film Maestro was nominated for the 79th Academy Awards in the Best Animated Short Film category.

His work as a director and producer encompasses theatre and opera productions (e.g. XYZ, The Miraculous Mandarin, Bluebeard's Castle, The Wooden Prince, St Matthew Passion, and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen tetralogy), children's films and animated series (e.g. Berry and Dolly, The Kuflis, Boribon's Tales, Humming, Tales of Nasreddin Hodja, MITCH-MATCH), as well as educational films (The History of Opera in Hungary, Opera130). Numerous children's books have been published with his illustrations (e.g. What Nature Teaches Us, Kobak Books, Barni in Berlin).

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As a Professor

He is a habilitated university professor holding a DLA in Arts and a PhD in Educational Sciences, since 1994.

Between 1994 and 1998, he taught at the Pető András Institute for Conductive Education, from 1994 to 2010 at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME, formerly MIE/MIF), and from 2010 to 2020 at the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE). At MOME, he led the Animation Department from 1995 to 2005, and at SZFE, he headed the MA Program in Production Design from 2010 to 2020. From 2014 to 2019, he served as Rector of the University of Theatre and Film Arts.

As a guest lecturer, he has taught at several international art universities, including the Royal College of Art in London, Filmakademie Ludwigsburg, and the National Institute of Design in India. Since 2018, he has been a university professor at the Institute of Hungarian Film and Media at Babeș–Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Founder and director of KEDD Animation Studio

In 2002, he founded KEDD Animation Studio. The Budapest-based studio creates and distributes high-quality artistic animation and children's content. Over the years, it has evolved into a complex, multi-faceted animation enterprise.

The studio's scope of activities includes the in-house production of animated content (short films and series), participation in international co-productions, international distribution, as well as the development, management, and commercialization of proprietary children's IPs (intellectual properties). Additionally, the studio operates its own AVOD and YouTube network for the distribution of children's and animated content, which is currently the third most viewed hungarian Youtube channel for kids.

Since 2011, the studio has been annually organizing the National Animation Festival (Országos Rajzfilmünnep), one of Hungary's most popular film events.

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Personal life

  • BornJun 16, 1970, Veszprém6
  • CitizenshipHungary7

Awards

  • 2008Béla Balázs Award8

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