Edit Jakab

Edit Jakab is a currently Budapest-based filmmaker and professor. Her award-winning films have screened at 80+ film festivals around the world, including Female Eye, Oxford, Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Dumbo Film Festival and Prvi Kadar in Sarajevo. She has so far received 27 awards. Jakab is Associate Professor at Károli Gáspár University where she teaches screenwriting, filmmaking, media analysis and English linguistics in the Communication and Media Sciences Department. She received a joint Ph.D. in Theoretical and Slavic Linguistics from Princeton University and an MFA in Film from Ohio University, where she also taught Scriptwriting. She is in the process of getting together the funds for her first feature whose working title is Rootless. Rootless explores one long day in the life of a female court interpreter for the asylum hearings of the Hungarian Roma in NYC while grappling with a personal tragedy that reshapes her existence. www.paprikafilmproductions.com