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Who we are

56Films is a production company specializing in documentary films as well as television production. Founded by journalist-documentary filmmaker Réka Pigniczky and corporate finance consultant Barnabas Gero in 2005, 56Films strives to tell compelling stories from the personal point of view.
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Tanya trailer
The Philadelphia and Vicinity Hungarian-American club, known as The Tanya, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in September. Réka created four archive film clips for the event, using the 8mm film her father and other founding members shot over the years, staring in the early 1960's.
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Hudec short doc to be screened at the AHEA conference in Brooklyn, New York
23, April 2012


The documentary short, The Life of László Hudec, in his own words, will be screened on Friday April 27th at 4:50pm at the American Hungarian Educators' Association annual conference to be held at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. For more information about the conference, please visit: www.ahea.net.

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The new, Hungarian version of the documentary short "The Life of László Hudec: in his own words" to be screened at the 43rd Hungarian Film Festival in Budapest.
29, January 2012
The Life of László Hudec/Sanhaj Magyar Építésze, a documentary short directed by Réka Pigniczky in cooperation with the Hudec Heritage Project for the Hungarian exhibit at the Shanghai World Expo in China in 2010, will be shown for the first time in theaters in Hungary during the 43rd Hungarian Film Week to be held in Budapest between February 2-6.

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Events

Inkubátor - Lumiére Filmklub
11, May 2012
The documentary short, 'The Life of László Hudec,' was selected to participate in the prestigious East Silver Film Market
29, January 2012

The Life of László Hudec was chosen to participate in the East Silver Market organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in the Czech Republic. The Market took place in October during the Jihlava Interatational Film Festival. 

Interest in the film was generated by Romanian, Czech...

Latest press

Hungarian Review article about the the state of Hungarian filmmaking and the 43rd Hungarian Film Week
1 March 2012
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