LESSON LEARNED

BÁLINT SZIMLER was born in 1987 in Hungary, grew up in New York. He moved back to Budapest at 9 years old. At 19 he got accepted to the University of Theatre and Film Arts, his head teacher was Ildikó Enyedi. His 3rd year short film “Here I Am” won the Hungarian Film Week and was later selected into Cannes Cinefondation and was nominated for best short by the European Film Academy. Since then he created the online music series “Kodály Method” and feature music documentary “Balaton Method”. “Lesson Learned” is his feature fiction debut.