Tamás grew up in Budapest. He’s based in the UK. He first studied theatre dramaturgy at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. In 2013 he enrolled to study film directing at the same University.
His first University project a short documentary Deep Water was invited to international film festivals amongst the Academy Awards nominating Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, and the European Film Award and Academy Award qualifying DOK Leipzig in Germany. The film was awarded in Mexico, Estonia, Albania and Romania. His first short fiction Examination won the Grand Prix in the Písek Internationl Student Film Festival in Czech Republic in 2017. His graduation film Assaut was nominated by the Hungarian Film Academy for the best Hungarian Short Film in 2018. It was invited to the Poitiers Film Festival in France and Tamás was awarded to be the best director under 30 years at the Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival, for making Assaut.
After finishing his BA film studies he started to develop and shoot a long-term documentary project based on his short Deep Water. He worked as a casting director in a Hungarian feature Guerilla, and directed a commercial.
In 2019 he continued his film studies at the National Film and Television School’s directing fiction MA course in the United Kingdom where he graduated in 2021. He directed four shorts in the UK. His NFTS graduation film Pressure won the award for Best Fiction in Paladino’d Oro Sport Film Festival in Palermo in 2022.
Now he is developing his first fiction feature idea, a father-son drama about codependency, set in the world of competitive sport, titled Weight of Air supported by the BFI’s Early Development Fund.
Tamás is also working on a mini series TV drama idea as a writer-director which is about transgenerational trauma. The story is following a woman uncovering unresolved family traumas affecting her feelings about becoming a mother. This project was invited to TorinoFilmLab – TFL Next developing program in 2023. which is focusing on a family story and transgenerational trauma.
I am interested in discovering the nuances of relationships and behaviour. I would like to portray the drama and tension created by the unspoken and unshown elements. Discovering the parallelly existing, completely different concepts of truths and emotions of people is something that deeply interests me.