Prof. Karl Bardosh

Producer/Director/Writer/Editor

Accumulating over 30 years of professional experience in Europe, Hollywood and New York in all genres of film and television Prof. Karl Bardosh has been an award-winning director, producer, writer, and editor of features, shorts, television series and documentaries.

He had initiated the world’s first network television educational series on the Aesthetics of Film (Hungary, 1968) pioneered a new genre, Poetry Music Videos with Allen Ginsberg (USA, 1984) and has introduced Cell Phone Cinema in India. (2007)

He is listed in Who's Who in Entertainment, Who's Who in Education and Who’s Who in America.

Education

Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy- B.A. –University of Budapest

Mass Media Communication (Film/TV)-M.A.-University of Budapest

Film Theory –Ph.D. Studies (ABD) –University of Budapest

Feature Film Director Fellowship- American Film Institute, Hollywood

Awards/Festivals

.Tokyo Educational Film Festival (1968) (Gold)

. 25th International Film Festival Melbourne (1976)

. Best American Short Features -U.S. Film Festival (1977).

. International Rehabilitation Film Festival, New York (1982)

  (First Prize).

. American Film Festival (1985) (First Prize).

. Jerusalem International Film Festival (1990) (New Trends).

  International Film Festival, Pusan, Korea (1998)

. Austrian Biennale (2002) (Certificate of Excellence).

. International Televison Entertainment Festival, Switzerland (2004)

 (Nominated for the Rose D'Or Award)

.Brazilian Film Festival of New York (Tribeca Cinemas, 2006)

.Amsterdam Documentary Festival (Docs for Sale) –2006

Highlights of recent works in Film, Television, and Video:

. 1988-90: Forced March, a full-length feature film

 (Co-Producer/Writer)

. 1992-to Present: Hungarian American Television, weekly series on the Public Broadcasting System (Producer/Director/Host)

Interviews with Henry Kissinger, Governor Pataki, Nobel Prize Winners Elie Wiesel and George Olah, Financier George Soros, Oscar Winner Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, Actress Isabella Rosselini, Hallmark TV CEO, Robert Halmi, Sr., Prime Ministers of Hungary etc.

. 1993-94: World of Film, a documentary series on the global film industries for the Public Broadcasting System

 (Director/Writer/ Editor of documentaries on India’s Bollywood and Bergman’s Sweden) For India, Co-Producer: Prakash Mehra,

Interviews with Amitabh Bachan, Sashi Kapoor, B.R. Chopra, Raj Babar etc.

1994: "Showmakers: The Pioneers of American Television," pilot for a television documentary series featuring the life and works of George Heinemann (Director/Editor)

1994- to Present: “Fresh Start: Student Works” featuring interviews and shorts by NYU film students -Time Warner Cable Television,

(Producer/Host)

. 1997: Backstage at the Tony Awards – the world’s first Multiple Camera Live Webcasting for Microsoft.  (Director)

. 1997-1998: Fallen Nest, Korean-American theatrical feature film

(International Film Festival, Pusan, Korea)-(Co-Producer/Dramaturg.)

. 1998: Mamet at the Atlantic Theatre - Multiple camera, big remote,   (Producer/Director.

. 1998: Static- full length 35mm feature film -New York-

 (Executive Producer)

. 1999: Santa Clause for the Novo Riche- Short digital feature (European/American Co-production),  (Director/Co-Producer)

. 2002-2004: “Burning Universe” - five fine art video essays on the installations of the artist/performer, Angel Orensanz.

The first video opened the Austrian Biennale, and won a Prize of Excellence, and then they were displayed in conjunction with the Venice Biennale, at the Metropolitan Museum and at the Pioneer Theater, New York. (Director)

. 2002-2003:  "The Sit Down," -one hour pilot for a 13 part reality entertainment television series (5 cameras -live-on-tape) (Director/Co-Producer/Writer, Nominated for Rose D’Or Award, Lucerne, Switzerland)

2004 to present: DIGI24 –Artistic Director of Digital Film Festival featuring 3 minute shorts, shot and edited in 24 hours.

(Set World Record with 55 films) Jury headed by world renown Directors, Miklos Jancso and Karoly Makk. (Hungary)

.2005-2006 “Frontier Gandhi” – Full length theatrical documentary on the friendship of Gandhi and Bacha Khan- shot in HDTV

Technical Consultant for Producer/Director/Writer T.C. McLuhan

(New Delhi) –in postproduction.

2006-2007  "Out of Balance" - full-length digital theatrical feature, Miami and Rio de Janeiro. (Director/Co-Writer/Editor)

.2006: “Russia!” –-120min Russian-American Co-Production.

Television Network Documentary on the history of Russia reflecting through her fine arts, as it was presented by the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Las Vegas, Moscow and Bilbao.

Acquired by the Russian TV Network.

Selected for the Amsterdam Documentary Festival (Docs for Sale) 

(Creative Consultant/Associate Producer/Additional Camerawork) 

Books in progress:

CIG to Digital Video for Penguin Books Publishers –2006-07

Cell Phone Cinema- Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc.

Agent, Janet Rosen

Professional Affiliations:

. Writers Guild of America

.University Film and Video Association

. Blue Ribbon panelist of the NATAS Emmy Awards and the Student Academy Awards

.Member of Jury, Features, Brooklyn International Film Festival

. Asian Film and Television Academy Club-Marwah Studios

.Artistic Director- DIGI24 Film Festival, Hungary

.IFP-Independent Feature Projects

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