
The main members of the HHP are the following (all are family members or are related to family members):
1. Virag Csejdy, Director, Project Leader, Web-designer
2. Reka Pigniczky, Researcher, Documentary Filmmaker
3. Abel Szalontai, Photographer, photo-researcher
4. Barnabas Gero, financial and legal advisor
Other Hudece Heritage Project partners who helped in realizing the project are the following:
• Dr. Eszter Janossy (owner of the HHP archives)
• Villo Gero (marketing specialist and political scientist)
• Julia Csejdy ((PhD art historian, National Office of Cultural Heritage, Budapest))
Virág Csejdy
Virág Csejdy is the director of the HHP in which she is responsible for concept development and web design. She is also conducting research on all visual archive materials about L.E. Hudec that have recently surfaced (2008). She is a free-lance web designer and project leader. Her former works include: from 2000 to 2004 she designed and developed websites as a project leader at the premiere Hungarian internet film portal Film.hu. This work included sites for filmunio.hu, mmka.hu, pim.hu, filmtortenet.hu. She also designs film and art websites and works as project manager for other Hungarian visual artists. She completed her studies in visual art design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and also completed an MA degree in multi-media at the Institute of Art and Media in Utrecht (HKU). She is L.E. Hudec's grand-niece.
Réka Pigniczky
Réka Pigniczky is a television journalist and documentary filmmaker who has worked for the Associated Press Television for over 10 years, mostly in New York City and Budapest. Next to her work in journalism, she co-founded Pige. Ltd (now 56films) in 1996, a company that has produced two documentaries and currently has two under development. Réka, who was born and raised in the United States to Hungarian refugee parents, has an M.A. in journalism and international relations from Columbia University in New York, an M.A. in political science from the Central European University in Budapest, and a B.A. in Political Science and Art History from the University of California in San Diego. JOURNEY HOME was her first documentary feature film. Released in Hungary in the Fall of 2006, it has received much acclaim and a number of awards.
www.56films.com
Ábel Szalontai
Photographer, responsible for processing the visual elements of the heritage. He is assistant professor at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. He will accomplish his DLA thesis at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2009. He has been organizing and participating in several national and international exhibitions.
www.szalontai.hu
Barnabás Gerő
Barnabas Gero is corporate financial services advisor and film producer. Since 2004, he is a manager in Deloitte’s Budapest-based financial advisory team and a member of Deloitte’s regional PPP and debt advisory product. Before Deloitte, he worked at Citigroup Global Corporate and Investment Bank as an associate in corporate finance and credit analysis department. Before Citigroup, he was employed at Iron Street Partners, a private equity firm in New York. In 1996 he co-founded Pige Ltd. (now 56Films), a film production company specializing in documentary films and television news production. 56Films produced the award-winning documentary Journey Home: a story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, on which Barnabas was the co-producer. The company is currently managing three new film projects.
Barnabas Gero received his BA in sociology from ELTE's Sociology Deparment in Hungary, an MA in Political Science from the CEU in Budapest, an MA in Sociology from the New School of Social Research in New York, and an MPhil in Management from Columbia University in New York. He is expected to receive his PhD in Business Administration from Columbia Business School in 2008.