Edit Jakab

Paprika Film Productions

BIOGRAPHIE

Edit Jakab is a Hungarian American filmmaker - writer, director, producer - who writes and directs films that investigate subjects of great human complexity and social injustice, while making uncompromised comments on the world she lives in. Edit received her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Slavic Linguistics from Princeton University, and she has completed her MFA in Film at Ohio University where she also taught Screenwriting. Making and teaching Film is an organic continuation of her studies in theoretical linguistics: both film and language build on structural elements to result in a product, which is universal. Edit acquired her writing and directing experience through working in an array of professional environments, including independent film and television industry in Montreal as well as studying and working in America and Europe. She has reported on film and jazz festivals as a cultural correspondent for over 15 years. Her first short film “Choice” was part of the official selection at Montreal’s Zensa Media International Film Festival. Her short documentary “In Trans” has been selected as a “semi-finalist” at Female Eye/TIFF and the Women’s Voices Now Online Film Festival, and it has been invited to their online archive. She has written, directed and produced several short films since then, primarily narrative fiction and documentary. Her first short documentary “In Trans” won the Audience Choice Award at the International Fifteen Minute Film Festival. Her film "In Praise of Angela" was in the official selection of Ohio Shorts by Wexner CEnter for the Arts. Her thesis film "Uncle Zsiga" has won an award at Istanbul Film Awards. She has also written a feature-length screenplay entitled “Rootless.” Member of the “Honorary Committee of Active Hungarian Filmmakers in North America,” of the Hungarian American Film-Theater Society.

FILMOGRAPHIE