21 June | Wednesday 15:00 | Otthon Cinema
There is a simple reason for our studio being called KEDD: it was born on a Tuesday, which is “kedd” in Hungarian. Just like I was born on a Tuesday. And many other people who have a special importance to me, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar, John Halas, József Attila, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Jankovics Marcell and Federico Fellini.
And there is another reason too. When I founded the studio, I wanted to express through its name the way I planned, or rather imagined it should operate. I hoped that it will be a place where we can develop our films, ourselves, our community and our audience day by day, week by week for years and decades. And it really became such a place. For twenty years, we have started every Tuesday with a general meeting, and we hold most of our events on Tuesdays. We do not regard our work or ourselves exceptional, but we do everything we can to infuse dull, ordinary weekdays with a bit of groove, colour and creative pleasure. For us, and for our audience too. Our goal is to make Tuesdays (and Mondays, and Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and Fridays) more meaningful and more special.
Over these twenty years we spent over one thousand Tuesdays working. On these days and other weekdays, we created nearly eight hundred interactive e-learning projects, over two hundred episodes of TV animation, almost fifty combined arts and educational productions. We made and distributed a total of six hundred episodes of our own children’s series and original films, and edited our children’s series into eight feature films. Our films are successful in the biggest Hungarian and international festivals: we have collected almost one hundred and fifty awards over the years. Our films are played on television in over one hundred countries, and we have successfully been distributing the films of numerous Hungarian and international studios. The KEDD team has been the organizer of one of the most popular film industry events, the National Cartoon Festival for ten years.
Now KEDD, or “Tuesday”, means not only a weekday to many, but also children’s animation, artistic productions, and watching films together with the family. I am grateful to my colleagues for every day spent with creative work, and I consider our every success a success gained and shared by the whole KEDD community.
Géza M. Tóth
head of the studio
