Mária Takács
About
Mária Takács is a Hungarian documentary director, video journalist and a civil activist.
She graduated from the Hungarian Film Academy (University of Theatre and Film Arts, director) after double majoring in history and geography at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest).
She has worked for Hungarian Television, and for the print and online press as well.
She has been making videos and documentaries for NGOs for 20 years, mainly for the Hungarian LGBTQ and other civil communities. Her mission is to raise awareness and to support human rights with the language of film.
She was member of the selection committee and event coordinator at Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
She is a founding member of Labrisz Lesbian Association (1999 – ) and the Budapest Lesbian Filmcomittee (2000-2004). Organizes a feminist film club since 2008.
FILMOGRAPHY AND PRIZES
2020
Game on – queer disruptions in sport (documentary, 63 min.)
Logline: Gay runners, a lesbian boxer, an intersexual rower. and a transwoman footballer, all on one team! Can you imagine them?
• Awards: Luleå International Film Festival – Best LGBT film (2021), Divine Queer Film Festival – Balon Mundial (2022), Toronto International Women Film Festival – Best LGBTQ film (2022)
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The Second Golden Age (web series, 6×12 min)
Logline: Middle aged lesbians getting to use the internet and mobile apps better for getting to know each other better.
Lenin wasn’t needed anymore (documentary, 30 min.)
Logline: Used to be the factory, now the Church organizes the small Hungarian community in Transcarpathia.
• Award: Dr. Kós Károly Ethnographic Foundation’s prize (2020)
2019
The pastor of Mandák House (documentary, 70 min.)
2016
2015
Hot Men Cold Dictatorships (documentary, 97 min.)
Logline: Four young gay guys investigate how Hungarian society and the state have been treating gays and how gays’ personal experiences of social and political oppression have changed since Communism until today.
• Awards: Audience Award, Serile Filmului Gay, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2016); Golden Awards, World Documentary Awards, Jakarta, Indonesia (2016)
2011
2010
2009
Secret Years (documentary, 90min.)
Logline: 11 Hungarian lesbians’ lives over the Iron Curtain
Nominated for the Co-Production Prize for Young German and Eastern European filmmakers, Robert Bosch Stiftung in 2009 in the category Documentary for the German-Hungarian project
• Awards: 7th Verzio International Human Rights Film Festival, Budapest Special Award 2010, ERSTE Social Integration Award 2011
2006
2005
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