Judit Stalter

Judit Stalter is one of the most active producers of Hungary, a country that has a very vivid film industry and is target of a tremendous amount of American and international productions as service location. She is running a market leader film production company called Laokoon Filmgroup with 2 co-owners Gábor Sipos and Gábor Rajna. They are mostly known for their groundbreaking holocaust-drama, Son of Saul that has won most of the awards of the world, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Golden Globe and the Grand Prix in Cannes. Their focus is the development and production of high-quality auteur feature films, creative documentaries and shorts, but they work with a wide range of genres from art-house features to commercials, TV-series and documentaries. They have worked together with Fernando Trueba, Penélope Cruz, Fernando Bovaira, Federico Brugia and Antonio Banderas among others, as a service production company. Stalter graduated from MegaPlus 2010 (Media Business - Audiovisual Business Affairs MA) and has participated in "Producers on the Move" and in several other international workshops and trainings. She is a member of EFA (European Film Academy). She is native Hungarian speaker but speaks fluent English. Before joining Laokoon Filmgroup she has worked at: Inforg Studio - a well-known Hungarian production company, in the past twenty years, the company has produced 25 feature films, 100 shorts and about 70 documentaries, and the majority of them have won prizes at national and international festivals. The Bureau - a London film production company as an intern. Between 2000 and 2005 she has worked on a number of shorts, documentaries and features as a line producer/production manager.