Palantír Film Visual and Anthropological Foundation

National Network
Hungary
Address

Budapest
Katóka u. 46
1163
Hungary

Telephone
+36 20 543 5639
Telephone (other)
+36 20 957 8499
Fax
003614030352
E-Mail
komlosi.orsolya@palantirfilm.hu
E-Mail (2)
komlosiorsolya@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2013
Fields of Activity
  1. Media
  2. Research
  3. Youth and education
General Information

1. Only the director is employed of the Foundation, which works with losts of volunteers and external cooperators. 2. 16 808 000 HUF – in 2007 3. 2 770 000 HUF – in 2007 4. The Foundation is to: - organize Dialektus Documentary Film Festival each year; - develop a non-profit video library in DocuArt; - search new ways of documentary-distribution. 5. Dialektus Festival has international partners every year, mainly other film festivals and organizations, for example: Jihlava Doc Film Fest, Eyes and Lenses, BuSho, Tranzit House (Cluj), Regence (Kosice)

Mission and Objectives

The Foundation aims to increase the utilization of the documentary in the society. Our organization is dedicated to the preservation of cultural diversity and interest. Our projects with the documentary use are promoting social awareness, the need and responsibility of forming an opinion. To achieve this: the development and realization of alternative film distribution strategies, organizing professional events, workshops, publishing film making publications, database management and providing information, archiving, education, fostering young talent, film making. The Foundation has also the profile to organize documentary film festivals and make film collections about the actual social questions.

Main Projects / Activities

The Foundation’s main projects are documentary film festivals and film collections in reference of the actual social questions, like the “Faces of Poverty” Film Festival , “Faces of Volunteering Film Festival” , the “Bouquet and a bicycle chain Ethnographic Documentary Film Festival or the „Strangers in My Garden” collection of documentary films about integration strategies. The Foundation biggest festival was the Dialëktus European Documentary and Anthropological Film Festival (2002-2010). We run Taiwan Dox, Taiwan Documentary Film Days since 2014.
Developing our film collection we realised that our film from the Strangers in my Garden filmcollection or the other documentaries in the DocuArt filmcollection have very positive feedback on the use of them. To measure the real impact of that documentaries and the work we begun 18 years before we invented a method how to measure the impact of our films.
We have 3 paid colleagues and during different projects we work with around 25 people , they all have other professions (film makers, communication experts, on-line marketing managers, project managers). We work with voluntaries also in case of bigger events like festivals.

Contact (1) Full Name
Ms. Orsolya Komlósi
Job Title
Head of Network
Head of the organisation
Ms. Orsolya Komlósi
Contact (2) Full Name
Orsolya Komlósi
Job Title (2)
Coordinator, Hungarian Network of the ALF