Diana Groó is a film director, scriptwriter, producer. She studied filmdirecting at the University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest where she graduated MA in 2000, and received her DLA diploma in 2018. She is the co-founder of Katapult film studio (2002) and DunaDOCK- docu- Masterclasses and workshops (2013). Following her prize winning shorts and documentaries (aired by HBO, Arte, YLE), she debuted her feature film, A Miracle in Cracow, a Polish-Hungarian co-production with Krzisztof Zanussi. Her second feature film, Vespa (2010), was awarded by UNICEF, won the Dialog Prize for Intercultural Communication in Cottbus, and the Best Director’s Award in Geneva and Los Angeles. Her documentary, Regina(2013), based on a single photograph, won the Lia Award at the 30th Jerusalem Film Festival and was screened widely, including the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at UNESCO (2014), the Library of Congress (2014), and was deposited in the Visual Center Collection at Yad Vashem. Diana’s documentary, entitled What Lies Ahead, won the Audience Award at the 4th Verzió International Human Rights Film Festival in Budapest. Diana is head of the Film and Media Specialist Program at Metropolitan University Budapest. Her recent project RECORDINGS is in development phase in Éclipse film – Katapult film coproduction along with Julianna Ugrin producer.