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Juror Listing 1999 Homepage Janos Kovacsi is a Filmmaker-in-Residence and Director of the School of Filmmaking at the North Carolina School of the Arts. A multilingual professor specializing in writing and directing, Janos has worked on numerous projects both in America and his native country, Hungary. He received his MFA from the Hungarian Academy of Drama and Film Art in Budapest in 1980 and went on to become a Fulbright Scholar in 1992. He is currently working as a co-writer for the theatrical motion picture, En La Puta Vida / Oh, Bloody Life with Beatriz Flores Silva. He has extensive experience in television, theatre and film. A few of his many past projects include: directing H. Deane & J. L. Balderstone's theatrical production of Dracula (1996); co-writing the theatrical motion picture Texas Highway 377 for J. Mitchel Johnson Productions in Ft. Worth, Texas (1994); working as a screenwriter for a full-length documentary shown on Hungarian Television in Budapest about the early years of counterculture in Hungary (1989). Janos recently received a Teaching Excellence Award from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Other awards for his work include the Italian Film Distributors' Award in 1983 for his feature Cha Cha Cha; the Main Prize of Directing in the Variations Variety Festival in Helsinki (1982) and the award in the Musical Category at the 25th Annual Television Festival in New York (1980) both for his rock fantasy, Wolves. |