Finished films

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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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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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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.

29, January 2012

Our new film about the Hungarian-American community is almost done – but this time it’s the older generation (those who left Hungary in 1956) who do the talking. They tell their own stories and also explain why it was important for them to create the so-called Hungarian-American cultural, political, and gastronomical “incubator” that they raised their children in.

Events

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...

20, January 2012

MAOSZ film screening | Incubator (Inkubátor) 2009

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