Tamás Almási is one of the most well known Hungarian documentary film
makers. He has worked as an assistant director with István Szabó,
Miklós Jancsó, and Zoltán Fábri. He graduated from Academy of Film and
Theatre of Budapest in 1979.
He started his
career as a feature film director, which has had a very important
impact on his documentaries. His films are all drama centered and he
uses strong emotional effects in them.
So far he has made more than forty full-length documentaries
and some feature films, which have been screened at a number of highly
prestigious festivals in Europe and overseas earning him numerous
awards. His films have been broadcast in almost forty countries.
Tamás Almási is also a professor at the University of Theatre and Film
Arts in Budapest, the leader of the documentary film making MA program
and also of the Hungarian part of the international MA program
DocNomads.