dr. SÁNDOR Takó

Producer

Hungarian Motion Picture Award-winning producer, film director, lawyer, university lecturer. He is the producer of the first Hungarian Netflix distributed TV series, “The Martfű Horror”.

He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, as well as at the animation department of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. In 2018, he founded his own film production company, FilmHungary, which produces films with Hungarian themes for the international market.

He is the co-producer of the 12-part animated series “Puskás Öcsi and His Friends,” which portrays the childhood adventures of Ferenc Puskás. Over the past years, he has produced award-winning documentary films about Transylvania, the Hungarian founders of Hollywood, the inspirational life of Nikola Tesla in Central Europe, and the Hungarian conquerors.

He is the publisher and editor of the book series “Hungarians in Hollywood,” which brings the biographies of creators such as Zukor Adolf, founder of Paramount Pictures, William Fox, founder of 20th Century Fox, three-time Oscar-winning composer Miklós Rózsa, five-time Emmy-winning Gábor Csupó, and Oscar-winning renewer of British cinema, Imre Pressburger, home.

He is an alumni grantee of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. He is a member of the Age Rating Committee of the National Film Office.