Producer / Coach / Consultant
Viki Réka Kiss is a Hungarian producer from Budapest. She has been an active in a variety of international film productions in different roles for over 10 years now. She “grew up” in the Nr. 1. Hungarian production company, Laokoon Filmgroup, where she worked exclusively for years in both documentaries and feature films - including the Academy Award winning Son of Saul (2016, Best Foreign Language Film). She has a background in the creative communication industry (used to work as a copywriter), speaks several European languages (English, Danish, Swedish, Hungarian) and is highly interested in film promotion, marketing and impact. She started working as an independent producer in 2016. Her main focus has been creative documentaries and author fiction films. She joined Julianna Ugrin on the exceptional project called A Woman Captured that premiered at IDFA and at Sundance, and was among the 5 nominees for Best European Documentary at the European Film Awards 2018. It was sold to 120 territories of the world and shown by 74 broadcasters. She is a member of the EFA, a DOKIncubator, a Sarajevo Talents and an ExOriente Alumna and an Emerging Producer. In the recent years as a freelance producer she has been working mainly with ELF Pictures (founded by András Pires Muhi and Ágnes Horváth-Szabó) and Good Kids (founded by Patricia D'Intino) on both documentaries, fiction projects and commercials as well. Her latest film (KIX, to be directed by Bálint Révész and Dávid Mikulán) is about to be released during 2023 and is a Hungarian-French-Croatian co-production. Her projects are being supported/financed by CNC, ARTE France, HBO Max, Creative Europe, Visegrad Fund, Current Time TV and many more.
She is a certified Advanced Leadership Coach (educated at the Gestalt Coaching Center) and she offers business coaching to both individuals and groups of filmmakers. Her work is based on the theories and methods of Gestalt Psychology.
Selected Filmography
2024 KIX (documentary, feature length) - producer - directed by Bálint Révész & Dávid Mikulán - produced by Viki Réka Kiss, András Pires Muhi, Victor Ede, co-produced by ARTE France, HBO Max and Rea Rajcic, Eclectica (Croatia)
CPH:DOX, Taiwan IFF, Jeonju, goEast, Dokfest Munchen, ZagrebDox, TIFF
represented by DYSFLIMS
2024 CABIN PRESSURE (documentary, feature length) - executive producer - directed by Eszter Nagy & Sára Czira - produced by Patricia D'Intino, co-producer by HBO Europe
ZagrebDox
represented by FEELSALES
2017 A WOMAN CAPTURED (documentary, feature length) – producer - directed by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter,
produced by Julianna Ugrin and Viki Réka Kiss, co-produced by Erik Winker and Martin Roelly (Germany)
Sundance, IDFA, EFA nominee
represented by SYNDICADO
2016 IT’S NOT THE TIME OF MY LIFE (fiction, feature length) – production coordinator – directed by Szabolcs Hajdu,
produced by Daniel Herner and András Muhi
KVIFF
2016 THE QUEEN OF SPAIN (fiction, feature length) – production coordinator – a feature film produced by Cristina Huete,
Penelope Cruz, Judit Stalter, Gábor Sipos, directed by Fernando Trueba
2016 KILLS ON WHEELS (fiction, feature length) – production coordinator & head of marketing – a feature film
produced by Judit Stalter, directed by Attila Till
KVIFF
2015 SON OF SAUL (fiction, feature length) – assistant producer & production coordinator – produced by Gábor Sipos
and Gábor Rajna, directed by László Nemes
Academy Award winner, Cannes Grand Prix winner
2013 MEN WITH BALLS (documentary, feature length) – assistant producer – an internationally acclaimed documentary
produced by Judit Stalter, directed by Kristóf Kovács
IDFA