Background
Géczy Dávid was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. His father, Géczy Bálint is a filmand tv producer, Puerto Rico expert, Deputy Head of Directorate-General of the Hungarian Press and Communication.
Géczy Dávid was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. His father, Géczy Bálint is a filmand tv producer, Puerto Rico expert, Deputy Head of Directorate-General of the Hungarian Press and Communication.
He graduated in Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Aesthetics and Communication Studies (Film, television specialization) in 2006.
He started to be interested in movies when he was young, worked in video stores, cinemas and for Film Magazines. Often he is coordinating post-screening discussion. His hobby is traveling.
After university he directed tv shows, advertisements and commercials for internet and around 60 television channels.
In 2007 his first short movie, titled „Hangár” („Hangar”) was shooted. He was the co-director of „Hamlet-illúziók” („Hamlet-illusions”) play which was a uniqe combination of theater and movie tools.
He has directed national and international videoclips and also an authentically reconstructed documentary: „Csepeli kettős gyilkosság” („Double murder in Csepel”), based on a crime in 2009 (similar to the investigative documentaries produced by British Broadcasting Corporation Crime). Since 2013 he has been involved in more image spots of Liszt Academy of Music.
The first image clip of Academy, called „Lisztérium - Ahol él a zene” („Lisztery - where the music lives”), was directed by Dávid in 2015.
Golden Eye Cinematographer Festival’s Award in Advertisement Category, organised by Hungarian Society of Cinematographers. In 2012 his third short movie, „Vér és tűsarok” („Blood and High Heels”) attended in Short Film Corner Programme of Cannes Film Festival. The movie was selected in Odense International Film Festival Programme in 2015 and also was selected in BestOFF15 selection of the Festival organiser Danish Film Institute, among the best 11 movies.
The film was one of the four Hungarian films that were selected into the „Special Screening” section as the focus of the 12th Akbank Short Film Festival (2016) in Turkey.
Géczy Dávid were invited to take part in the roundtable-discussion called „Experiences” as well as Elma Tataragic (curator of Sarajevo Film Festival), Carter Pilcher (Chief Executive Officer and funder of ShortsTV International) and Gábor Hörcher (Hungarian director). 2015 A csepeli kettős gyilkosság - 4.