Documentary Filmmaker
Ambrus is from Budapest, Hungary, living in New York City. He obtained his MA diploma in Film Studies and then worked for over a decade as Camera Assistant next to many renowned filmmakers. Besides that, he made documentary shorts for independent productions, online journals and NGOs and finished a Documentary Studies program at The New School in NYC. His diploma short was screened at DOCNYC.
His main interest is to tell personal stories of people whose modes of self-expression are absorbed in a genuine atmosphere. Throughout this kind of examination, Ambrus thrives to blend the theoretical knowledge of filmmaking and narrative techniques with the practical skills he had gained working behind the camera.