Zoltán Kamondi

Zoltán Kamondi (6 April 1960 – 17 March 2016) was a Hungarian film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1960 in Budapest, Hungary. After finishing his studies at the Faculty of Art, Kamondi earned a degree in film direction at the Academy of Drama and Film, where he graduated in 1988. He won many festival awards with his short films. Between 1986 and 1988, he was a member of the directors’ board of Balázs Béla Film Studio.

In 1989 he worked as a war correspondent for Japanese and French television and Radio Free Europe during the Romanian Revolution. At the same time he worked with Károly Makk as script writer and co-director. His film Paths of Death and Angels was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.In 2002, he started teaching at the Hungarian Film Academy. In 2003 he was awarded the Balázs Béla Prize.