Demeter Lóránt
Directing
Biography
Demeter Lorant (born 1982, Hungary) is a director, writer, and animator whose career began in 1999 with his first amateur horror short, Picnic, followed by a series of short films. In 2003, he directed his first professional short, Lag, which won Best Editing at the New York Short Film Festival. He continued exploring the horror genre with two self-financed, more abstract works, Royal Flush and Urine. In 2005, Lorant began developing the feature project Block-66, which ultimately remained unrealized. Shifting focus, he delved into animation and visual arts, directing over 50 music videos for indie bands and becoming a leading projection mapping artist. In 2010, he founded Full Screen Studio, which grew into one of Hungary’s top visual content production companies for events and projection mapping. Lorant returned to horror filmmaking in 2015 with Lucky Girl, inspired by 1970s Exploitation Cinema and the French New Wave Extremism. His 2020 sci-fi short, Possessed by Aliens, a family-friendly story about a boy and his alien-possessed grandmother, gained wide acclaim, screening at over 40 festivals worldwide and earning numerous nominations and awards. In 2023, he achieved his biggest success yet with SILEO, an animated sci-fi short based on the Ship of Theseus thought experiment, earning selections, nominations, and awards at major genre film festivals globally. In 2024, Lorant and his producing partner, Gábor Sz. Nagy, completed their first feature-length arthouse horror film, Dreamland Awaits, now in post-production. They also filmed Through the Eyes of Lóránt, a documentary about Lorant’s father, a renowned Hungarian painter, alongside a documentary about indie filmmaking. With multiple projects in post-production and new films on the horizon, 2025 is shaping up to be a very busy year for Demeter Lorant.
Known For
In Park City, Utah a group of independent filmmakers attend a shoestring film festival and experience the oft-regular disillusionment of the low budget film world. However, they enter the orbit of the one man running the show and decide to come back the following year to help and change what was a beautiful disaster the year before.
Spectacular by Comparison
Seasoned but troubled detective Josh has spent twenty years confronting life's darkest corners, shaping him into a hardened man. Now, he faces his greatest challenge: his wife and two daughters have been kidnapped by a mysterious figure. To save them, Josh must follow the stranger's commands, move into an empty house, remain unnoticed, and complete a series of tasks. The house, a gateway to a dark dimension, begins to consume the reality around Josh, driving him toward insanity. As he navigates this perilous journey, he confronts a terror even more frightening—his own dark side.
Dreamland Awaits
After working for years in a factory and being repaired and replaced bit by bit a robot realizes that he doesn't want to lose his identity and sets out to find his creator.
Sileo
A serial killer snatches three girls from a car wreck and takes them back to his lair of horrors. Will any of them survive?
Lucky Girl
A young boy has to spend a few days at his grandmother's place and he soon figures out that she might not be granny anymore.
Possessed by Aliens
An imaginary poker game turns deadly.
Royal Flush
János Demeter Lóránt, the multi-award-winning Hungarian painter, shares his life and experiences, brought to life through hundreds of photos and videos from his extraordinary journey.