Joint Programme Management Board

Course Directors

The course directors and their close local colleagues are excellent professionals, active cinematographers/ directors participating in the development and realisation of the common teaching methodology of Viewfinder. They act as leaders of the main professional modules and they monitor the academic development of the students throughout the semesters and the entire joint masters programme.

Mart Raun/Tallin, BFM

He is cinematographer for feature, documentary and short films, commercials and a freelance storyboard artist and illustrator for films and hundreds of commercials. For ten years he has also worked as gaffer and electrician for films and commercials and as a freelance Assistant Camera and DIT for films and commercials (35mm, 16mm, HD, HDV). His short film “Distance" (2012 directed by Janno Jürgens) was chosen by Locarno International Film Festival 2012 - Pardi di Domani short film competition programme. In addition to filmmaking and teaching he has writing about films since 2012 and is currently a film critic for Estonian newspaper Äripäev, one of the most successful economic newspapers in Europe. Mart Raun is the course coordinator of Kino Eyes JMD programme.

Steve O’Reilly/Dublin, IADT

Steve O’Reilly is a graduate from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA in TV and Film, and an MA from the National Film School (IADT) in Dublin. Steve has over twenty years professional experience in Ireland and internationally in the film and television industry. Steve has worked on productions for many international clients including the BBC, National Geographic, Artė, CBS 60 mins, and Netflix. His list of credits include TV and film commercials, film shorts, documentaries and TV programmes, and include two international award winning feature film documentaries ‘The Summit’ 2014 and 'In A House That Ceased To Be' 2015. Steve has worked all over the world including extreme environments such as Antarctica the Himalayas and transatlantic yacht racing. He maintains a detailed and up to date knowledge of new technologies. He has experience working with high end camera rigged drones and he is a camera gimbal specialist. Steve now teaches on undergraduate and master’s degree programs in the National Film School in Dublin, as well as continuing to work in the Industry at home and abroad.

Gábor Szabó/SZFE,Budapest

He is cinematographer, Balázs Béla Award winner, Meritorious Artist. Cinematographer/Director of Photography of some 30 feature and TV films, many documentaries, shorts, commercials and concert films in Hungary and in many countries of Europe, winner of more than 60 prizes at Hungarian and international festivals. He was awarded the title of “Best cinematographer of the year” several times. His film “The Revolt of Job” was an Oscar nominee. An artist experimenting with the renewal of the cinematic language, Gábor Szabó’s book (Filmeskönyv, “Book of Film”) became a standard work of film education in Hungary. Professor since 1980, in the positions of department head and specialisation leader, Mr Szabó is one of the Hungarian cinematographers who have been longest engaged in education. Founder and board member of the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers. Main films: The Revolt of Job (Jób lázadása), Meteo, Tandem (Városbújócska), The Long Shadow, Tirza, Galloping Mind. Publications: Filmeskönyv- Hogyan kommunikál a film (Book on Films: How the film communicates)(2001)
http://gaborszabo.hu/en/

Joint Programme Manager

Erika Winkler/Budapest, SZFE

Erika has worked in the film profession for 30 year and in higher education in the field of film and media for 10 years. She is the idea-owner and the consortium coordinator of DocNomads, the first joint masters in the field of film in Europe. She has been the project coordinator of all international education development projects at SZFE. From 2007 until 2015 she was the Erasmus coordinator of SZFE. She lead the best-practice projects sharing with the biggest European film schools: the London Film School, Den Danske Filmskolen, Den Norske Filmskolen, Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid, and film schools from Portugal, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. Project leader from SZFE’s part in the CIAKL, the pilot project of the new Knowledge Alliance programme type in Erasmus+. She is the project leader of the current 3 years strategic partnership programme “Three layers telling a story” lead by SZFE with 7 European partner higher educational institutes.

There is no new application call for the academic year 2021-2022.

Update on the next call will be published in October 2021.

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