SZÉPHELYI Júlia
Born in 1982, Budapest
phone: +36 30 431 5493
e-mail: juli@fictionscience.hu
skype: julia.szephelyi
web: www.fictionscience.hu
Education
2009: Film & Television Academy (HFF Konrad Wolf) Potsdam-Babelsberg Germany, Department of Screenwriting and Dramaturgy
Erasmus Scolarship
2004-2009 University of Drama, Television and Film, Budapest
Motion Picture Department – Screenwriter
2002-2004 Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Filmhistory and -Theory
Filmography
AZ EGYIKÜK ROMA VOLT / One of them was a roma (social campaign for roma integration, 2010) director
MEGYÜNK? / Do we go? (social campaign against smoking, 2010) director
ARC commercial contest – 1st prize
commercial for Fiction Science Scriptwriter Laboratory (2010) director
NEM AZÉRT / The best teacher in the world (social campaign against corruption, 2009) director
Transparency International commercial contest – 1st prize
STUMMFILM / Dumb Film (short fiction, 2009) writer, director
HAGY / Le(f)t (short fiction, directed by: PAPP Szilvia, 2009) dramaturg
OPERA COMPETITION AND FESTIVAL WITH Mezzo TELEVISION (commercials, spots and tv documentaries about European opera-houses for Mezzo Tv, 2008-2009) director
social campaign for the women’s rights (2008) director
CHILI ÉS VANÍLIA / Chili & Vanilla (cooking show pilot, 2008) director
RENESZÁNSZ / Renaissance – segment of Decameron 2007 (short fiction, 2007) director
A MINDENES /Slavey – segment of Decameron 2007 (short fiction, directed by: SZŐCS Petra, 2007) writer
39. Hungarian Film Week; TIFF (Transilvania International Film Festival); Sarajevskazima 2008
IDEGROHAM MACSKÁK MIATT / Nervous breakdown because of cats (short fiction 2006) writer, director
Scripts
AZ ÉJSZAKÁINK SZEBBEK, MINT A NAPPALAITOK / Our nights are more beautiful than your days [working title] – feature, co-writer
MAGYAROK BÉKEIDŐBEN / Hungarians in Time of Peace – feature
AZ ÁRNYÉK / The shadow – short fiction based on a short story of MÉSZÖLY Miklós
FERNANDA HAT EINEN PONY / Fernanda’s Pony – short fiction
INCELLA KENYÉRÉRT MEGY / Incella goes to buy bread – short fiction
Experience
· 2010 Istanbul Express – European documentary making workshop on the way from Tallin to Istanbul
· 2010 tutor in the Fiction Science Scriptwriting Workshop in the Mediawave Passport Control Summer Camp
· 2010 consultant at Life Ad – 20 years of freedom? Eastern- European short film /ad contest
· 2010 founder and member of the Fiction Science Lab scriptwriter group
· 2009 Cinematography Masterclass – international workshop with Vilmos Zsigmond and Elemér Ragályi – script for the cinematographer’s exercises
· 2007 Budapest Squares – international documentary making workshop of Nisi Masa), consultant, organizer
· 2006-2007 Nisi Masa European scriptwriting contest – member of the Hungarian jury
· 2006 MAKI (Hungarian Shortmovie Festival) – consultant in dramaturgy
· 2004-2010 writing and shooting webvideos for Filmkultúra and Mozinet (Hungarian film magazines)
Language Skills
English, German