László Sántha

Sántha's films Tattooed Walls, Inner Movie, and Dog Tax have been selected for Montreal, Telluride, Berlin, AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, Oberhausen, Fort Lauderdale, Charleston (Gold Award), and Krakow. He got the Best Newsreel Award at the Hungarian Short Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the Miskolc Documentary Film Festival. His films were screened at Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) and Millennium Film Workshop (NYC). 

Santha made hundreds of newsreels for movie theaters, and his feature documentary about the Last Political Prisoner in Hungary was received well in the political transition in Hungary.

His script Stolen Girls got significant attention in Hollywood and several producers competed for it. Finally, two young producers, secured 10 M USD and has been working on preproduction. 

His other script, Bark, was based on his award-winning film, Dog Tax, which he co-wrote with John Caldwell. The project had Orlando Bloom and Claire Forlani attached.

Sántha was a keynote speaker at CINE Golden Eagle Showcase in Washington, D.C.  His film Russian Experience was featured at the Clinton-Jelcin Summit in the White House. He worked for independent production companies in Europe and the US as a director, writer, producer, and story editor, including Sanford-Pillsbury Productions, Outlaw Productions, Zeta Entertainment, Monday Films, and Santa Monica CTV. 

Sántha's recent projects include Love That Movie, a documentary and a reality TV series written and co-produced with Sam Pollard. He is also a co-producer of the film series Kicking Polio Out of Africa and The Poliovirus Endgame.

Sántha served as Senior Artistic Director for City TV Tata (Hungary). Outside of NYU, he has taught and lectured at Hunter College, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSB, UMass Amherst, Bard College, and in Budapest. Sántha enjoys teaching and is deeply interested in his students’ present, past, and future.

His recent research is focused on creative use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in art and film education. 

He is the member of the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) and Film Independent, a non-profit arts organization.