Alex Fodor

Director Alexander Fodor was born in Hackney Hospital, London to a Hungarian refugee of the Budapest revolution in 1956. At the age of 4 he moved to Enfield in North London, his father working in a factory (the MetalBox, Palmers Green). Alexander attended Chace School in North Enfield, a school with the reputation as the worst school in the borough, but he still managed to achieve 13 'O' levels and 3 'A' levels. He was also performing internationally with the London Boy singers and involved with the Air Training Corps, where he not only won Cadet of the Year but won the Corps highest award, a flying scholarship, as well as being presented with a Gold Duke of Edinburgh's award at Buckingham Palace. Won two Arts Awards, the Enfield Arts Society Best New Talent and the Hertfordshire Life Scale Award, He ended up studying Aeronautical Engineering at City University. He moved towards the Arts graduating from the Royal College of Art and also attaining a Masters Degree in Philosophy at Cambridge. In a career in entertainment media spanning over 20 years he's been involved in Theatre, TV, and Film, with two moving media awards: T42 (Triangle Trophy, best film short) and Hotel (Sterling Award for cinematography) In brief; he's been involved on three features Hamlet, Draining Lizards and The Care of Time, with Hamlet being his feature directorial debut, and has about 20 film shorts that he's directed. He's written four features and numerous shorts.