Dr. Tamás Kollarik, PhD, is a prominent Hungarian Film Award and Miklós Bánffy Award winning, film professional, filmmaker and senior lecturer. He has been active in a number of cultural fields and film administration. Tamás holds degrees in law, the humanities and administration-organisation.

He obtained his PhD at the Doctoral School of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

He has worked in a variety of positions in public administration and has managed business entities. Between 2010 and 2019 he was a member of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority, and was the founder and coordinator of the Hungarian Media Maecenature Programme. He has served as director of Neumann Nonprofit Kft. and the National Audio-Visual Archives, and was a founder and director of the Bűvösvölgy Media Understanding and Instruction Centre. Between 2019 and 2020, Tamás was operative director of the Television Maecenature programme, and vice president of the Film College. Since 2020 he has served as a member of the National Film Institute Television Decision-Making Committee, and a rector’s commissioner at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Since 2021, he has been a senior lecturer at the school.

He has participated in the creation of a number of books, DVDs, documentaries and commercials as a book publisher, producer, creator, scriptwriter, editor, author and expert. He regularly participates in conferences and festivals in Hungary and abroad. He has authored and edited a number of publications and books about film, including: Animation Review, Motion Picture and Paragraphs, Hungarian Animators I, Hungarian Scriptwriters I, Hungarian Producers I, and Film and Law in Practice. He is credited with the return to Hungary of the legendary book Lajos Egri: The Art of Writing Drama. Tamás has researched the Hollywood film moguls Adolf Zukor and William Fox (Vilmos Fuchs), and is the creator and editor of the Hungarian editions of their biographies. As part of the series Hungarians in Hollywood, which he edited, Tamás has published monographs of Miklós Rózsa. He was also the author and editor of the monographs Gábor Csupó – From the Pannonia Studio to Hollywood Star and Jenő Janovics – A Life in Service to Hungarian Culture. He is the author of film and film history publications and articles (László Moholy-Nagy, Jenő Janovics, Hollywood and Hungarian roots…).

He has taught at universities for nearly a decade: he lectures at the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, the University of Theatre and Film Arts, the University of Pécs, and the Metropolitan University of Budapest. He focuses on film law and film administration.

He has been on the judging panel at the Savaria International Film Review, the Magenta Telephone Movie Festival and the Local Value Prize of the National Association of Local Televisions a number of times. In 2020, he was the chair of the judging panel at the Sándor Trauner International Film Review. In 2021, he was a member of the judging panel at the Gödöllő International Film Festival, the Lakitelki Film Review, the Kecskemét Animation Festival and the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival.

He has been a member of the ART Committee since 2017 and is now president. He is a member of the Hungarian Film Academy and the Hungarian Academy of Arts. In 2019, he received the Hungarian Film Prize. In 2020, in recognition of his exemplary activities in the field of film and media administration, he was awarded the Miklós Bánffy Prize.