Monika Mécs
Mónika Mécs (born 17th of November 1967) is a Hungarian film producer, and the co-founder of Inforg-M&M Film Production Company and M&M Film Production Company. In 2012 Just the Wind produced by Inforg-M&M Film won the Jury Grand Prix at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. The film was directed by Bene Fliegauf, and was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.
In 2017 On Body and Soul produced by Inforg-M&M Film as well, won the Golden Bear in the competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
With Ernő Mesterházy and Andras Muhi, who are her partner-producers, they won further prizes at the International Berlin Film Festival with On Body and Soul; such as the FIPRESCI prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. The film was also selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards. The main female character Alexandra Borbély also won the European Actress award at the European Film Awards for her performance in the film.
Biography[edit]
Mónika Mécs finished her studies at SZFE University of Theatre and Film Arts as a producer in 1996. After this she began her work at “Fekete Doboz” Black Box , which was a documentary filmmaking company, that before the democratic transformation reported on every historical cut-off and social crisis’ centre on the soviet side of the Iron Curtain. In 2005 with her husband, Ernő Mesterházy she established M&M film roduction company. The company’s first big success was the film called “The End” (directed by Gábor Rohonyi ) in 2007. The film was released all around the European movie scene, furthermore, it was in the Japanese movie programme too. In the past decade the M&M Film Production company’s work stands behind most of the successful Hungarian popular films. But M&M Film also produced such art films as the [1] directed by Attila Till (2011), or Szabolcs Hajdu’s Bibliotheques Pascal in 2010 (as co-producers). During this period Mónika Mécs started a big feature film with András Muhi who was the manager at Inforg Studio, and became the producer of [2] (directed by: Bence Fliegauf, 2007) or the film called [3] also directed by Bence Fliegauf, 2010. The M&M film and Inforg Studio merged in the same year and established Inforg-M&M (IMM). The new company’s first film [4] directed by Bence Fliegauf (2012) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, and five years later in 2017 [5] directed by [6] won the Golden Bear prize. There are currently many short fiction films and feature films at IMM under production, out of these the most prominent is “The Story of My Wife” developed by Ildiko Enyedi, and “Glowman” by Bence Fliegauf.
Filmography[edit]
Akik maradtak (in pre-production)
Loop (in pre-production)
The Story of My Wife (in pre-production)
Glowman (in pre-production)
A nővérhívó (in pre-production)
Lupus (in developement)
Gingko (in developement)
On Body and Soul (2017)
Brasils (2017)
Nagyi meséi: Meló (2017)
Pilinszky János Európája (2015)
Drakula dilemma (2015)
Deja vu (2014)
Kópék (2017)
Yes (2013)
Nejem, nőm, csajom (2012)
Just the Wind (2012)
Beast (2011)
Bibliothéque Pascal (2010)
Womb (2010)
Születésnap (2010)
A sírásó (2010)
Vonat (2009)
Aczél (2009)
Chameleon (2009)
Csillogás (2008)
Panic (2008)
Milky Way (2008)
The End (2007)
Bird Saviour, Clouds and Wind (2006)
References[edit]
https://index.hu/kultur/cinematrix/ccikkek/2010/02/23/mecs/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4238266/
https://index.hu/kultur/cinematrix/2018/03/05/oscar-dij_testrol_es_lelekrol_oscar-gala_mecs_monika/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4238266/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/21/on-body-and-soul-review-ildiko-enyedi?CMP=share_btn_fb
http://hvg.hu/kultura/20170618_sydney_filmfesztival_testrol_es_lelekrol
References[edit]
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