The Grandfather Puzzle

Ora DeKornfeld is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor. Her work has been showcased in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, as well as on CNN, Netflix, and National Geographic. She directed, produced, filmed, and edited the Emmy-nominated short USA v Scott, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2020 and was acquired by The New Yorker. She directed, shot, wrote, and edited a New York Times Opinion video, This is What a Post-Roe Abortion Looks Like, which was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2023. Other independent work has received awards from Picture of the Year International, The Webby Awards, and SXSW Film Festival. She directed several episodes of Vox’s original Netflix documentary film Explained, and was cinematographer and editor on the feature documentary film Mija, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022. Mija was acquired by Disney+ and earned an IDA Award and Independent Spirit Award nominations. Ora recently was part of the editing team of Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller (Anonymous Content / Impact Partners).

Noémi is an IDA Awards nominated producer and director, the co-founder of Match Frame Productions, an independent film production company based in Budapest. Noemi was a Sundance DFP Grantee in 2015 (Afterglow), 2019 (Her Mothers) and 2021 (Agent of Happiness). The documentaries she produced (Agent of Happiness, I Won’t Die, Her Mothers) premiered at festivals like Sundance, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, Warsaw etc, winning several awards worldwide. She currently produces three feature documentaries and an AR piece: The Grandfather Puzzle (Ora DeKornfeld), Missing 10 Hours (Krisztina Meggyes), Little Ones (Mate Artur Vincze), If Thee Streets Could Talk (Barna Szász). Noémi studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Graduate Filmmaking Program on a scholarship in 2018, but she dropped out in order to focus on her ongoing projects. Her first feature film as a director, Six Weeks, premiered at Sarajevo in 2022 and won more than 20 international awards since, among them the Just Film Grand Prix at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and the László B. Nagy Award for Best Film in 2022 from the Hungarian Film Critics. Currently she is writing her second feature film, while pursuing her BA in Psychology.

Máté Artur Vincze is a freelance director and producer. He graduated from the Graduate Filmmaking MA program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He established Match Frame Productions with Noemi Veronika Szakonyi in 2014. Their production company is dedicated to making creative documentaries and XR content. Their work has received funding from organizations such as the Sundance Institute, HBO Europe, the National Film Institute Hungary, and Creative Europe MEDIA. Their films have premiered at renowned festivals including IDFA, Hot Docs, Warsaw, Sarajevo, and Sheffield. Their latest feature documentary, Agent of Happiness premiered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.