Márton Vizkelety
Give Love Create
Scientist GYULA DÉKÁNY, who views life as a chemical information system, makes groundbreaking discoveries while living 16,000 km from his family.
SYNOPSIS
“What is life? Life is a chemical information system.” This quote from scientist and biotech entrepreneur GYULA DÉKÁNY highlights his unique perspective that led to groundbreaking discoveries, including the synthesis of human milk oligosaccharides, now used in nutritional products worldwide. Over the past 20 years, Dékány has lived 16,000 km away from his family to pursue scientific breakthroughs. Currently based in Australia with his family, he is working on synthesizing compounds to cure Parkinson's and Alzheimer’s. Is life just a chemical information system?
DIRECTOR
Márton Vizkelety
PRODUCER
Julianna Ugrin
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Éclipse Film
CO-FOUNDER
Sundance Institute – The Sandbox Fund
National Film Institute of Hungary
Creative Europe Media
Hungarian Film Incentive
COUNTRY
Hungary
Márton Vizkelety
MARTON VIZKELETY is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a degree in Cinematography from the University of Theater and Film Budapest. He has photographed documentaries such as KEEP QUIET (2016) TRAIN TO ADULTHOOD (2015), and ULTRA (2017). His directorial debut with Julianna Ugrin, HOLY DILEMMA (2022), won the Hungarian Film Critics Prize for Best Documentary and the main prize at the Verzio Film Festival, Budapest. He began working on the project called GIVE LOVE CREATE in 2020, which is planned to be launched in 2025.
Production company profile
ÉCLIPSE FILM is a Budapest-based independent film production company, founded by Julianna Ugrin in 2011. The company concentrates on high-quality productions with relevant, particular or artistic content. Our films have participated in festivals like SUNDANCE, IDFA, HotDocs, DOK Leipzig, Sarajevo IFF, CPH:DOX, to name but a few. The company also co-organized sessions of DunaDOCK, EURODOC and KineDok.