Hungarian film director
Flóra Anna Buda (born March 4, 1991) is a Hungarian film director and animator based in Paris, France. She is mostly known for writing and directing the multi-award-winning short film 27, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, where it won the Palme d'Or du court métrage.[1] Buda has also written and directed the award-winning short film Entropia (2019), which was her university graduation project at MOME.[2][3]
Career
Buda studied animation at MOME (Budapest, Hungary) and graduated in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in animation and in 2018 with a master's degree in animation.[2]
After completing her studies, she began an internship at MIYU Productions, where she later became a film director.
Between 2018 and 2019, Buda participated in the European-Union-funded programme 'Animation Sans Frontières',[4] an international animation workshop at the École de l'image GOBELINS in Paris, France; the Filmakademie Baden Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany; The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark; the MOME in Budapest, Hungary.
Buda also took part in two artist residencies between 2020 and 2022: she attended the Open Workshop, and international residency for animation directors at The Animation Workshop, and the International residency for animation directors CICLIC, in Vendôme, France.[5]
Her first professional film, 27, was completed in 2023 and premiered at Cannes Film Festival on the same year.[1]
Filmography
- The day when mother nature hit me (2015) - director, art director, animator[6]
- Superbia (2016) - color, clean up
- Entropia (2019) - director, art director, script writer[7]
- Symbiosis (2019) - background designer
- Born in Auschwitz (2021) - animator
- 27 (2023) - director, screenwriter, art director, background designer, layout artist, animator[1]
Recognition
Buda's Master's final project Entropia received the Teddy Bear Award at the 69th Berlinale in 2019.[8][3][9]
Her film 27 won the Palme d'Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival[10][11] and the Cristal Award at the 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.[12] In 2023, the film was nominated to the European Film Awards for Best European Short Film,[13] and shortlisted to the 2024 César Awards.[14] On December 21, 2023, 27 was also shortlisted to the 96th Academy Awards.[15]
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