Description:
An
18-year-old Instagram influencer attempts to reconcile his identity
online with his identity in real life.
Biography: Barna Szász is a
Budapest-born filmmaker and video-journalist specialized in the young
genre of online videos. Starting out as a video-journalist at the
largest Hungarian news magazine, Index.hu, he later became the
leader of the video team for the portal that has 1 million visitors a
day. From the 1-minute Instagram videos to the 25-minutes-long short
documentaries he believes that online videos are the best tools to
affect today's society. Being able to reach millions of people
Barna’s passion is to inspire viewers with personally engaging
stories, and to make society better by presenting social-political
issues and problems that would not reach newer generations through
traditional media. Over the years he won the Media for Talents award
and the Hegeto Honorka award for presenting issues of the socially
disadvantaged. In 2016, he co-founded the Video Journalism
certificate program at Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design,
Budapest, and from 2017 he is a Fulbright Student pursuing his MFA in
Documentary Film and Video at Stanford University.
Ellie
Wen was born in Hong Kong and moved to Los Angeles when she was
eight years old. She attended Stanford University and graduated with
a BA in Drama and a Minor in Sociology. Ellie was selected for the
2012 Project Involve fellowship program and was named the Barbara
Boyle Scholar. She has directed and produced numerous shorts,
documentaries, and features, including White Frog, which she
co-wrote. In addition to creating independently, she has also worked
at CAA and CBS Films in all aspects of film finance, sales,
acquisitions, production, and development. Most recently, she was the
Director of Development in Original Series at Super Deluxe, an
independent entertainment studio funded by Turner. Her documentary Single Mother Only Daughter screened at the American
Cinematheque's 12th Annual Focus on Female Directors and premiered
online on Short of the Week and was a Vimeo Staff Pick.
