Fresh from her Chain Film Festival film screening here in NYC, join us in viewing Edit Jakab's film, Deer Bell (Szarvasbőgés). We will also engage in a conversation with the writer/director herself, Edit Jakab.

This short documentary follows a day in the life of a rural Hungarian Roma family focusing on the children, who are raised by their grandparents. From morning until the sun goes down. And life goes on just the same.

About the Event

Featured Guests:

Edit Jakab

Edit Jakab is a currently Budapest-based filmmaker and professor. Her award-winning films have screened at 90+ film festivals around the world, including Female Eye, Oxford, Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Dumbo Film Festival and Prvi Kadar in Sarajevo. She has so far received 32 awards.

Jakab is Associate Professor at Károli Gáspár University where she teaches screenwriting, filmmaking, media analysis and English linguistics in the Communication and Media Sciences Department. She received a joint Ph.D. in Theoretical and Slavic Linguistics from Princeton University and an MFA in Film from Ohio University, where she also taught Scriptwriting. After obtaining her fifth degree in the USA (MFA in film direction), she moved back to Hungary after 28 years in America. So now she continues to work on her films at home in Hungary.

She is in the process of getting together the funds for her first feature entitled Rootless. The award-winning screenplay Rootless explores one long day in the life of a female court interpreter for the asylum hearings of the Hungarian Roma in NYC while grappling with a personal tragedy that reshapes her existence.
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Eddig 8 filmet készített, és több, mint 30 nemzetközi díjat nyert a Jakab Edit. Miután megszerezte az ötödik diplomáját az USÁ-ban (MFA filmrendezésből), visszaköltözött Magyarországra 28 év Amerika után. Így most otthon Magyarországon dolgozik tovább a filmjein, valamint a Károli Gáspár Református Egyetemen tanít egyetemi docensként.

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Date / Time:

August 3, Saturday - 7pm

"Deer Bell" Film Screening and Conversation with Edit Jakab (writer/director)