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artistic stuff and presents its repertory with 25 plays and opens 10 new plays in a season. Traditionaly maintains the best productions even though programming them for 4-5 years long which up to the feedback of public and members of Circle of friends. ARPAD SOPSITS He received his degree in Education and Library studies at the Debrecen Teacher's Training College. In 1980 he received his Masters Degree in Film and Television Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Hungary. He wrote many scripts while working as a director's assistant for Karoly Makk, Gabor Body and Andras Jeles, His first feature film Shooting Gallery was made in 1989, FILM CREDITS: 2000 ■ Abandoned/ Torzdk (Feature Film) Awards: 2001: Budapest: Best Direction - 31st Hungarian Film Week Best Supporting Actor: Pal Macsai Montreal: Main Prize Ex-Aequo Ecumenical Jury Prize Chicago: Gold Plaque to Tamas Meszaros (Young Talent) Berlin: Prix Europa Special Strasbourg: Diploma of the Forum du Cinema European Belgrade: Special Mention of the Yugoslav section of FiPRESCI Special Prize of the Association of Film Artists of Serbia to Peter Szatmari for his cinematographicai work 2002: Ho!lywood:Oscar Submission for Hungary Budapest: Hungarian Film and TV Critics'Prize for the Best Direction Best Supporting Actor: Pal Macsai Bergamo: Silver Camuna di Rosa Laon: France Republic 1 President Prize Budapest: Gundel Art Prize Zlin: Main Prize of Visegradian Four’s Festival Giffoni: Bronz Gryphone, Valle Piana Prize 1998 - Fly Trap/ Legyfogo (Feature Television Film) 1998 ■ The Negative Man/A negativ ember (Documentary Television Film) 1996 -Lost Leading Man / Derengo (Feature Film) 1995 - Ritual / Ritus (Short Visual Art Film) Monte Carlo: Television Festival, Special Visual Art Category 1994 - Fear and Trembling / Fćlelem 6s reszketes (Kozjštšk) (Short Doc.and Fiction) 1992 - Video Blues / Video blues (Feature Film)

Awards: 1992: Locarno: Juvenile Jury's Prize 1993: Budapest: Best Director, 24th Hungarian Film Week Potsdam: Grand Prize (shared) Varna: University Student's Jury Prize 1989 - Shooting Gallery/Cellovolde (Feature Film) Awards: 1990: Budapest: Special Prize, 22nd Hungarian Film Week Foreign Critics' Gene Moskowitz Prize Cannes: Juvenile Jury's Cerificate of Merit Chicago:, Golden Plaque to Tibor Klopfler (DP) Bergamo: Bronze Camuna di Rosa CICAE Prize Gent: Support for Retailing 1991: Budapest: Film- and TV-Critics' Photographers' Prize to Tibor Klopfler Lagow: Golden Grapes 1980 - Grand Cafe Niagara / Niagara Nagykavehaz (Short Diploma Film) 1978 - Free Pass into the Bomb-Crater / Szabadjegy a bombatoloserbe (Student Film) Award: 1978: Oberhausen: Ecumenical Jury's Prize Special Film Award: 1994: Budapest: Bela Balazs Award Theater Credits: 2002 - Henry IV. by William Shakespeare Gyula:Varszinhaz 2001 - Crime and Punishment Behind Bars by Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Arpad Sopsits Budapest: Ericson Studio of the Budapest Kamaraszinhdz Awards: 2002: Pecs: Best Performance, National Theater Festival Best Lead Actors Prize 1985 - The Dragon by Jevgeny Schwarz Budapest: Harlekin Children's Theater 1982 - Ox on the Roof by Jean Cocteau Miskolc: National Theater of Miskolc