FilmDough

05/03/2026

Our film, 80 Angry Journalists begins in the summer of 2020, when Hungary’s largest independent newsroom collapses under political pressure. More than eighty journalists resign together. One of them, war correspondent Földes András, turns his camera on his own newsroom as it unravels.

What begins as a moment of collective resistance becomes a longer story about survival, leadership, and the fragile dynamics inside a community trying to defend independent journalism.

The film follows the journalists over four years — from the walkout to the creation of a new newsroom, and the pressures that continue to shape their work and relationships.

80 Angry Journalists is screening at:
CPH:DOX
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
One World Prague
Movies That Matter
Budapest International Documentary Festival
BELDOCS

Watch the trailer below.

Follow the film here:
80 Angry Journalists → https://www.facebook.com/80angryjournalists

19/02/2026

We always knew that dok.incubator is one of the strongest documentary development platforms in Europe.

At the beginning of 2025, we weren’t even properly at rough-cut stage with 80 Angry Journalists. Our Czech co-producer, Vít Janeček, convinced me we should apply anyway. Applications were technically closed. “We’ll go through the regional selection as a Slovak documentary. We’ll manage,” he said — half serious, half determined.

In April, we arrived with something that was closer to an assembly cut than a rough cut. By the time other films had already refined their first versions, we were still trying to understand ours. Only by the end of the three workshop sessions did we reach what others had brought to the starting line.

What we did have was time. More than ten hours of detailed feedback from our tutors, Christilla Kann and Aurélien Guégan. Precise, demanding, patient. I remember running transcripts through AI multiple times just to process the notes and structure the thinking.

Months later, we must have done something right.

We sent the rough cut to CPH:DOX.

Now we’re racing to finalize the DCP and make sure everything technically works. And we’re incredibly grateful to be here.

Thank you, dok.incubator.

Now that the full program of CPH:DOX has been released, it is official that you will get a chance to watch three brand new dok.incubator films at the festival! 💫

If you're going to be in Copenhagen in March, keep an eye out for:
🌀 We are Stardust / Science selection
🌀 Becoming Ema / NEXT:WAVE competition / World Premiere
🌀 80 Angry Journalists / Urgent Matters selection

Elisabeth Rasmussen Patricia Drati Good Company Pictures

05/02/2026

Thank you so much for your amazing contribution and standing by this film, team Differ Media!

Differ Media is a proud to be co-producer on the incredibly important documentary 80 Angry Journalists which will have its long-awaited premiere this weekend at the BIDF - Budapest International Documentary Festival!

The film follows from the inside as Hungary’s largest independent news outlet, Index, is taken over by figures close to the country’s authoritarian government. In an unprecedented act of solidarity, eighty journalists resign together, unwilling to serve under political influence.

Congratulations to the wonderful main producer Lorand Balazs Imre (FilmDough ) and director Földes András , we are so excited to follow as the film meets its audience, travels around the world, and reminds us of the importance of a free press. Thank you to Stiftelsen Fritt Ord for supporting the project in Norway and to the brave journalists who have shared their story in the film.

17/08/2025

We’re proud to see A Bee In My Mouth, directed by Lorand Balazs Imre and produced by filmDOUGH, featured in Variety as part of the Emerging Producers 2025 slate at Ji.hlava.

The film explores personal grief in an intimate visual language, and is currently in production.

Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival has revealed to Variety the projects that the participants of its Emerging Producers program are working on.

19/05/2025

Speakeasy founders meet at dok.incubator!

19/05/2025

Hungary, an EU member country, is a step before becoming a full-fledged dictatorship. Break the silence!

The Hungarian Parliament is preparing to vote on a bill titled “On the Transparency of Public Life.” Given the ruling party’s two-thirds majority under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the bill is expected to pass. If enacted, it would endanger the work and livelihoods of Hungarian documentary filmmakers who rely on international funding to tell stories that challenge the government’s narrative or focus on issues deemed controversial or “anti-Hungarian,” such as marginalized communities or dissenting viewpoints. Share this letter within your filmmaker community, raise awareness, put pressure on your local film institutes or educate them about what is happening in Hungary. Read the full statement in the bio or on our website.

19/06/2024

Tilos Rádió Marathon Berlin 2024
https://www.facebook.com/events/472948198514723

13/12/2023