Agnesh Pakozdi

Agnesh Pakozdi graduated as an economist in 2007 in Budapest, then, as a student majored in film theory and film history at ELTE university, studied experimental video at the Universität der Künste in Berlin for a year. Then she studied cinematography at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, where her diploma film, “Das melancholische Mädchen”, received the prestigious Max Ophüls Award and was also nominated for the Michael Ballhaus cinematography award. In 2015, she received a scholarship to do the “Expanded Cinematography” course at the Global Cinematography Institute led by Vilmos Zsigmond and Yuri Neyman.
She has worked as cinematographer in six feature films, in more than twenty short films, in international series, documentaries and video art works both in Hungary and abroad. Her feature films premiered at well-known international film festivals (Cannes, Locarno, Sarajevo, Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam, Berlinale), her second feature received the best cinematography award in 2017 in Valladolid. At the Zsigmond Vilmos International Film Festival in 2025, her film Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry received the cinematography award of Vantage Vision and Special Grip Hungary as well as the Critics’ Award for best cinematography.