BÁRON GYÖRGY

Fipresci jury 2024

György Báron had been a professor habil at the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE), now he is a teacher of Freeszfe and Metropolitan University, Budapest. He is the president of the Hungarian Society of Film Critics within FIPRESCI. Since the 1980s he has published more than thousand reviews, essays and studies, both in Hungarian and other languages. He has made educational documentaries for various television channels, radio programs on film topics and he is the author of the books Hollywood and Marienbad and Descent to the Underworld. He received a Béla Balázs Prize, a Mihály Táncsics Prize, a Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic and a Necktie Prize (voted for the best teacher of SZFE).