Bálint Szántó is an ex-blogger and independent filmmaker. After publishing online reviews and articles he started his filmmaker career and established Lazy Cat Films in 2017.
First he produced short films e.g.
Echoes (2018) and
Parallel (2018) and in 2017 - cooperating with
Gergö Elekes and
József Gallai - he directed his first short film
Az éjszaka fényei (2017).
In 2018 he directed two short films
Cipõsdoboz (2018) and
Gone (2018) - his short mystery horror was officially selected at the Short to the Point International Film Festival in Romania and won an award of merit at the 9th István Bujtor Film Festival in Hungary.
Szántó is currently working on a feature horror titled
The Whispering Man (2019) as writer and executive producer. The film is expected to be released in late 2019.