József Gallai

József Gallai was born on Jan 22, 1988 in Hungary. József Gallai's big-screen debut came with A meg nem érintett directed by Gergö Elekes in 2012. József Gallai is known for The Child Eater directed by Gergö Elekes, Regina Fonyó stars as Anna and Vivien Németh as Vera. József Gallai has got 66 awards and 47 nominations so far. The most recent award József Gallai achieved is Bari Under The Stars Film Festival. The upcoming new movie József Gallai plays is I Hear the Trees Whispering which will be released on Sep 20, 2022.

After watching La jeune fille de l'eau (2006), József Gallai decided to deal with filmmaking and started writing screenplays and short stories. Between 2009 and 2012 he was mainly involved in amateur films in various genres.In 2014, he wrote and co-directed Hungary's first feature length found footage horror Bodom (2014). In this year the movie opened the Bram Stoker International Film Festival in Whitby, UK as well as collected numerous nominations on film festivals including 30 Dies Festival in Andorra, Golden Rake Award for Indie Horror and New York Scary Film Awards in the US and Amazon Horror Awards in Brazil.In 2015 Bodom was in the final competition at the Full Moon Horror & Fantasy Film Festival in Romania, competing with award winning films such as Welp (2014), Horsehead (2014) and Réalité (2014).In 2016 his next horror movie Moth (2016) was completed and finished 4th Best Feature Film at the International Horror Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. The movie has been called a "thought-provoking and chilling film" by Found Footage Fiction and a "front running for a new horror niche" by Horror Habit. According to Horror Asylum, Moth is "an unusual experience with some moment reminding the author of David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006)".In the end of 2016 Gallai finished his fourth found footage feature A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex (2016), being described as an "enjoyably sinister movie with a delightfully unhinged central performance" by UK Film Review and collecting further positive reviews from Found Footage Critic, Top Found Footage Films and Warped Perspective as well as three nominations (including Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Film) on the International Filmmaker Festival World Cinema in Nice in 2017.Between 2018 and 2020, he completed two other feature films Spirits in the Dark (2020) and The Surreal Project (2019) which are distributed worldwide by Wild Eye Releasing.Featuring Oscar-nominated Eric Roberts, Gallai's current feature film The Poltergeist Diaries (2021) is scheduled to be released worldwide in 2021 and he is filming his adventure/mystery/sci-fi feature I Hear the Trees Whispering (2022) starring horror icon Bill Oberst Jr..