Zsuzsanna Varga
Geller-Varga began her career as a freelance journalist and television news reporter.
She received a master’s degree at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. Her thesis documentary (Screw Your Courage) won awards at US film festivals (Best Documentary Short 2001 äóñ Atlanta Film Festival, Best Short Doc äóñ 2002 DocSide Filmfestival) and was broadcast on public TV in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She then worked for New York Times Television as a video-journalist on several documentary series about the trials and tribulations of doctors and hospitals in various U.S. cities. She returned to Budapest in 2001 and has since contributed to independent documentary films. (From Home To Home 2003., Take Three 2004. Director: Tamíçs Almíçsi, Journey Home 2007. Incubator 2009. Director: Rí©ka Pigniczky) She has directed and shot her own feature and short documentaries: Once They Were Neighbours (Szomszí©dok voltak, 2005.), Synagogue For Sale (Zsinagí_gíçt vegyenek! 2007.) and Mr. Mom (Apacsavar, 2009.), which have been well received at local and international filmfestivals and were broadcasted by Hungarian Television and Duna Television (public service channels in Hungary).
Currently she has been pursuing a D.L.A. degree in documentaries at the University of Theater and Film Arts and teaching documentary ethics at the DocNomads international joint masters program.
She has also been in production of the feature-length documentary, Angel Business, about the birth of the Hungarian startup world.
(Name changed from Varga to Geller-Varga in 2006.)