The Producers

Gábor Hörcher — Director

Gábor Hörcher was born in 1980 in Budapest, Hungary. He attended the University of Psychology, Law and the University of Film Studies, and has worked as a waiter in London, and as a mixer and bartender in Greece. He has lived in the US, France and Cambodia, where he taught courses on Human Rights at a local university. He started filmmaking and working with director and producer, Marcell Iványi early 2008. They run KraatsFilm together producing films and theatre performances. Gábor’s first feature film project DRIFTER won the Robert Bosch Co-production Prize in 2011 and premiered at IDFA winning the Best First Appearance Award in 2014. The film was selected for the European Film Award in 2015. His latest fiction short film titled RICSI premiered at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and shortly after won the Best Hungarian Short Fiction Prize at Mediawave Film Festival in 2015.

Marcell Ivanyi — Producer (Kraatsfilm)

Marcell Ivanyi was born in 1973 in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated at the Academy of Film, Budapest, Film and Television Directing Department and studied Dramaturgy, Drama Writing and Acting at the Klotildliget Drama School. He won a Palme d`Or at the Cannes Festival in 1996 for his short fiction film Wind, and a Scholarship for Screenwriting at the Cinéfondation Residence, in Paris in 2000. He established KraatsFilm with Gábor Hörcher where he directs and produces in different film and theater productions and works as an actor at Playgrund Imrovisation Theatre led by Andrew Hefler. He has been the creative producer of the Yvette Bozsik Company since 2007.

Christine Le Goff – Producer (ZED)

Award-winning producer Christine Le Goff started her career in the 80s in New York working in independent feature films. An encounter with Newsreel founder Robert Kramer led her to Paris to focus on documentaries. She’s produced over 70 films, including 1998 Sundance premiere Classified X with Melvin Van Peebles for ARTE and BET, and 2002 Feature Documentary Academy Award winner Jean-Xavier Delestrade’s Murder on a Sunday Morning for France 2, Channel 4 and HBO. More recently, she produced several prime-time features and series for ARTE including Living Universe, Sacred Space and Birth of Shopping.

Manuel Catteau – Executive Producer (ZED)

After graduating from Sciences Po Paris in 1989, Manuel Catteau was appointed Head of Sales and Acquisitions for AB Groupe and held the position for 3 years. He then moved to Prague and created a TV drama distribution company, as the audiovisual rights market was flourishing in Eastern Europe.

Tereza Bóna Keilová – Executive Producer (MAX)

Tereza Bóna Keilová is a film professional born in Prague, Czech Republic (1982). Her nearly 20-year long experience includes working on the sets of several independent feature films, feature documentaries, commercials, and TV series. She studied Film Production at the Private Film School Písek and has worked in the film industry since 2003. Her portfolio ranges from working with independent and award-winning producers to major studios like 20th Century Fox. Tereza currently works in the documentary section of HBO Original CEE on the regional level. She is working on many high-end European documentaries in collaboration with producers from Central and Eastern European countries.

Hanka Kastelicová – Executive Producer (MAX)

Hanka Kastelicová is the VP and Executive Producer of Documentaries for HBO Max in Europe. Based in the Prague office, she is responsible for the development and production of HBO's documentary films and series in Europe.

Anna Závorszky – Executive Producer (MAX)

Anna Zavorszky is the Executive Producer of HBO Original Series and Documentaries produced in Hungary.
Anna has been working in the Hungarian Film Industry for almost 20 years, she has developed her career based on her experience in International production services, feature film and documentary productions and on her passion to create outstanding and engaging creative work.
She joined HBO Europe Original Production department six years ago, she has produced three Seasons of the best Hungarian TV Series titled ‘Aranyélet’ that won the critics’ and the audience heart, and created festival awarded documentaries like ‘Harm’, ‘Train to Adulthood’, ‘Ultra’ and ‘Return to Epipo’.