Katalin Oláh (director-editor) is a Hungarian filmmaker based in Budapest. After many years working as a producer, she switched focus entirely to directing and established Makabor Studio, an award-winning production company with her cinematographer husband. Since 2012, they have produced several documentary films and short fictions. All of their films have been broadcast by different Hungarian TV channels and received numerous awards. Their films have been screened internationally at Edinburgh FF, Clermont Ferrand Short FF, Sarajevo FF, Brussels Short FF, Beldocs, among many others. She has been nominated several times by The Hungarian Film Academy as best director, and she was awarded the best editor prize in the documentary film category in 2019. Her feature documentary The Bar Mitzvah Boys was nominated for Prix Europa 2018 and her short documentary Mignon won best short documentary at BIDF 2019. She received the prestigious international critic’s Fipresci Prize at Cinefest 2022 for her feature documentary Conquering Time – Ágnes Keleti.
