Szabolcs Tolnai

Tolnai Szabolcs was born in 1971 in Szabadka. He is a film and theatre director and a university professor. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Újvidék and, in 2018, earned a DLA at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, where his doctoral work examined the points of contact between opera and cinema. He is a full professor at the Academy of Arts in Újvidék and at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrád.

His work as a director is shaped by the multiculturalism of Vajdaság and by a distinctive visual treatment of literary source material.