Gabor Fabricius

Gábor Fabricius
Born	(1975-10-25) October 25, 1975 Budapest, Hungary
Occupation	film director, writer, media designer
Nationality	Hungarian
Education	Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Central Saint Martins College
Notable awards	Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Golden Media Lion British Council Multicultural Achievement Award Zoltán Huszárik Award for Skinner, 2015 Special Mention, Fédération Des Ciné-Clubs for Dialogue, 2017

Gábor Fabricus (Budapest, October 25, 1975) is a film director, writer and media designer.

Biography

Gábor Fabricius is a director, writer, media designer, MA graduate from Central Saint Martins Collage in London, his professors included Mike Figgis.

His short films were screened over thirty film festivals around the world, and have won several prizes. As media designer he won the Cannes Golden Media Lion Award Cannes Lions Festival, the Clio New York Silver, and many more. His direct-cinema style short film, Skinner had its world premier at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), won Zoltán Huszárik Prize in 2015 by Hungarian Media Fund.

Gábor Fabricius at the age of 26

His first novel (Más bolygó) was published by the prestigious literary publishing house:Európa Könyvkiadó, in 2016 and was nominated to Aegon Literary Prize in 2016 by the publisher.

He was awarded Multicultural Achievement Award by British Council.

Gábor Faricius at TIFF in 2014

Early life

Fabricius was born in Budapest into a family of long heritage of scholars and religion philosophers. His mother, Valéria Sóváradi, is a Munkácsy-prize winner painter, known for her metapsychical style. He has become interested in filmmaking at an early age, began filming amateur avant-garde films at his mother's atelier. One of his first piece at the age of fourteen was a short about a burning egg. His favourite film directors are John Cassavetes, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and writers are Raymond Carver, Arthur Miller, Péter Nádas.

In 1995 he started studying contemporary Hungarian and English literature at Pázmány Péter University, but later quit for video-art and aesthetics at Moholy-Nagy University, Budapest.

In 1997 he founded Republic Group, that has become one of the largest, leading creative agency in Budapest. He focused on awareness campaigns in multiple social and commercial topics. He has been directing over three hundred music videos, commercials and cinematic, experimental multimedia initiatives, exhibited in contemporary galeries and museums in Budapest and London. Among many others, he has worked with György Pálfi, Ferenc Török, Nimród Antal, Ferenc Rofusz, Károly Ujj-Mészáros or Pál Sándor.

Career in writing

Fabricius published his first book in 2009.^[1]

Career in film

In 2010 he founded Otherside Stories, a creative film company, which main aim is to define truth in pictures, whether documentary or fiction.

In 2010 he wrote and directed his first, well received short, Grown Ups, that was premiered in Naoussa International Film Festival in Greece.

In 2012, his short, Bianca, a social drama inspired by assassinations against gypsy families in Hungary that time, was premiered at 43th Hungarian Film Festival.^[2]

In 2014, his award-winning short, Skinner, was premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. In 2015 Skinner won Zoltán Huszárik Prize by Hungarian Media Fund.

Gábor Fabricius at ZFF

Selected film festival list, selected accolodes

• In 2000, Fabricius won a Golden Media Lion in Cannes.^[3]
• In 2008, Fabricius received a special award for multicultural achievement from the British Council.
• In 2015, Fabricius won Zoltán Huszárik prize by the Hungarian Media Fund for his short film, Skinner.
• In 2017, Fabricius' company, Republic Group won The Clio Silver Award, New York.

References

External links

• Otherside Stories
• Hello Republic
• Cannes Lions Festival