Biography

Pál Sándor is a renowned director and producer of both the Hungarian and international film industry. After graduating the Theatre and Film Academy as a film director, he worked from the mid-nineteen sixties in Studio 3 of Mafilm and close to twenty years in Hunnia Filmstudio where he was deputy director between 1985 and 1989, and managing director from 2003 to 2011. Pál Sándor was a long-time teacher of the Theatre and Film Academy. For over ten years he was the owner and Managing Director of Novofilm, a Hungarian-German film production company. In 2000 he founded his own film production firm, Filmstreet. Pál Sándor holds the most prestigious Hungarian film awards: the Prima Primissima Prize, the Kossuth Prize, the Béla Balázs Prize and the Outstanding and Excellent Artist Award, along with 24 international accolades like the Silver Bear from Berlin, the Fipresci Prize from Cannes, the Silver Hugo from Chicago, and the Critics' Prize from Karlovy Vary, just to name a few.

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