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Máté Szórád, Production Manager
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Máté is Edina’s partner and works very closely with her. He’s been scouting and negotiating for the use of locations, lining up production personnel, and engaging in long Skype conversations with me on everything from lighting options to various ways to use make-up to age actor’s faces.
In between preparing for The Restless Hungarian shoot he is editing a feature film for one of Hungary’s most prominent directors.
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Please help support Edina and Mátés
work on The Restless Hungarian.
Here are answers to four questions I asked them:
1. What do you like most about the work that you do?
Edina: I love the opportunity to work with gifted and inspiring people in a time-consuming and complex process. I like witnessing the metamorphosis that happens when a film is created.
Máté: I like that each day brings new challenges that I am called upon to solve. When I am not editing I manage film projects. Working on the production side gives me the adrenaline I need.
2. What appeals to you about the The Restless Hungarian project?
Edina: I am reminded of Roger Martin du Gard’s series of eight novels, Les Thibault, which made a great impression on me at a very young age. Both The Restless Hungarian and Les Thibault are stories about families over several decades. Both explore different approaches to life, different survival strategies, magnifying the similarities and the differences.
Máté: What drives me the most is that this project is personal project, with strong emotions and the personal involvement of the director. As soon as I read the script, it became a mission for me.
3. What is helpful for me to understand so we can work well together?
Edina: Budgeting, logistics and financing are the focus of my work. In order to make a living I often work on several projects simultaneously so there is not always enough time for a proper intellectual immersion in the material. Beyond that, I think I am easy to work with—you don't need a user's manual.
Máté: I am the kind of person who gets obsessed to make impossible things possible. I do whatever I can to provide what’s best for the project.
4. What is your dream for your career?
Edina: I would love to have the luxury of choice – to always choose projects that I believe in and want to work on. This is the luxury of freedom. I’m not quite there yet. At the moment I am also producing commercials.
Máté: My dream is that soon my company will do several projects like The Restless Hungarian, and I want to become one of the best producers/filmmakers of Hungary :) .
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