
Dr. Ferenc Moldoványi is an internationally acclaimed film director, documentary producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and university professor with over thirty years of professional experience. His films have been screened at nearly 160 international film festivals in 50 countries — including Berlin, Locarno, Montréal, Karlovy Vary, Denver, San Francisco, Toronto, Houston, Valladolid, Rome, São Paulo, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Sydney, Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Nyon, Tel Aviv, Yamagata, Monte-Carlo, Biarritz and Busan — and broadcast by Sundance Channel, Canal+, RTBF, RTP, YLE, Canal Once and Hungarian Television. Winner of over 40 international awards. Voting member of the European Film Academy. His work has been recognised with the UNICEF Highest Appreciation and the Prize of the International Human Rights Institute of the Council of Europe. His films and work have been reviewed and featured by Variety, Screen, Realscreen, Le Monde, Libération, Berliner Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Soir, Film und Fernsehen and Kinema. Between 2019 and 2026 he was a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley: first as Assistant Professor in Film and Television, then from 2023 as a tenured Associate Professor in Film. His students achieved international and national festival awards for the first time in the department's history.








"There are films which defy with persistence our willingness to forget quickly. Another Planet is such a film. We admire the director for his courage and perseverance — he worked for over five years to accomplish this touching and disturbing masterpiece. With its artistic forms of expression and its deep spirituality it transcends the limitations of documentary film."
International Jury Statement · 57th Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2008Press: Variety · Le Monde · Berliner Zeitung · Der Tagesspiegel · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung · La Libre Belgique · Libération · Le Soir · Télérama · Realscreen · Screen International · Film und Fernsehen · Filmvilág · Kinema · The Hindu
Nominations: Best Documentary – Karlovy Vary IFF (1998) · SILVERDOCS Cinematic Vision Award (2009) · SILVERDOCS Witness Award (2009) · Sterling World Feature Award – SILVERDOCS (2009) · Millennium Award – Planète Doc (2009) · Best Human Rights Film – Mexico City IFF (2009) · Amnesty International Award – CPH:DOX (2008) · Best Documentary – Montréal WFF (2008) · Best Documentary – Karlovy Vary IFF (2001) · Peace Film Award – 51st Berlinale (2001) · Golden FIPA – Biarritz


Sundance Channel (USA, nationwide) · Canal+ · RTBF (Belgium) · YLE (Finland) · RTP (Portugal) · Canal Once (Mexico) · Hungarian Television M1/M2 · Duna TV · ETV (Estonia) · TV Catalonia · RTVSLO (Slovenia) · Canal+ Poland
EURIMAGES (Council of Europe) · EU MEDIA Plus Programme · Sundance Institute–SDF · UNICEF · UNESCO · Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation · Ministry of Education & Culture · Hungarian Cultural Foundation



2026 — 45th Hungarian Film Week, Documentary Jury
2023 — 9th South Texas Int'l Film Festival, jury member
2022 — 8th South Texas Int'l Film Festival, jury member
2012 — Bucharest International Film Festival
2011 — Golden Carpathian FF, Ploiești · Festroia IFF · Film.dok FF
2010 — Prix Europa, Berlin — TV Fiction Jury
2009 — Stranger Film Festival, Amsterdam — President · FICG, Guadalajara
2005 — Panel Expert, EU MEDIA Plus Programme, Brussels
2004 — One Minute Junior Film Festival (UNICEF), Amsterdam — President
2003 — Festroia IFF, Setúbal · DocAviv, Tel Aviv
1999 — FIPA, Biarritz
1998 — Visions du Réel, Nyon
2022 Association of Turkish Documentary Filmmakers — screening and online discussion, Ataşehir Mustafa Saffet Cultural Center, Istanbul
2021 Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Tuesday Colloquium Series — Human and Children's Rights in Documentary Film
2009 National Museum, Copenhagen, Amnesty International — 20th Anniversary of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
2009 École des Arts et du Cinéma, Tunis — 4th Int'l Documentary Film Festival
2009 DocuLab Guadalajara — 24th Guadalajara IFF, selected Latin American filmmakers
2004 One Minute Junior workshop, Sandberg Institute / European Cultural Fund / UNICEF, Amsterdam
2002 University of Arizona — Bridging Cultures: Documenting the Children's War
2000 CUEJ, University of Strasbourg — Should Journalists Talk About the Past?
2022 — Artists in Focus of the Camera, Collegium Hungaricum Rome / Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri, Rome (Mar. 4 – Apr. 14)
2022 — Artists in Focus of the Camera, Bánffy Palace, Cluj-Napoca (May 18 – Jun. 5)
2021 — Images of Light II / Thinking in Images – Photos by Filmmakers, 2nd National Salon of Photography, Műcsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest (Apr. 24 – Sep. 26)
2019–2026 — International Documentary Association (IDA)
2019–2026 — University Film and Video Association (UFVA)
2010–2026 — European Film Academy, voting member
1992– — Association of Hungarian Film Artists
1992– — Association of Hungarian Journalists
1992– — International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Hungarian (native) · English (fluent) · French (fluent)
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