Fanni Potonyecz
Fanni Potonyecz is a Hungarian director, actress, and emerging producer. She holds a master’s degree in film directing from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, an acting diploma from Kaposvár University, and a BA in cultural anthropology from the University of Miskolc. As a freelancer, she has worked on many film productions. She developed the documentary series The Murderers of Labancz Anna as a producer during the Ex Oriente international workshop from 2023 to 2024, and the project was selected among the top 10 projects at NEM Zagreb. From 2021 to 2023, she worked as a cultural manager at the Budapest International Documentary Film Festival, where she also coordinated the short film section. Her short film Next Stop, which she wrote and directed, was awarded production funding by the National Film Institute in 2023.