Zoltán Kamondi (6 April 1960 – 17 March 2016) was a Hungarian film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
In 1989 he worked as a war correspondent for Japanese and French television and Radio Free Europe during the Romanian Revolution.
In 1990 he made his first film Paths of Death and Angels, which was screened in Cannes, Sélection Officielle “Un Certain Regard", and was invited to festivals in Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo, Ghent, Paris and Orleans.
It was invited to film festivals in Alexandria, Boston, Calcutta, Madrid, Dhaka, Vancouver and Porto.
At the 33rd Hungarian Film Week it won for Director, Cinematography and Leading Male Actor.
In 2007 he completed the feature film Dolina based on the novel The Archbishop’s Visit by Ádám Bodor on which he had been working since 2000.
At the Tiburon International Film Festival 2008 it won the Golden Reel Award for Best Director At the International Film Festival Syracuse, New York, 2008 (USA) it took cinematographer and the Jury Prize for production design, art direction & costumes.
He directed Crimes of the Heart, winning four prizes including Best Performance at the Hungarian Theatre Festival.
In 1996 Kamondi founded his own experimental theatre company called 'Rolling Cult Motel' in Miskolc.
In 1997 he began shooting The Hungarian Speckled Variety, a documentary series, parts of which he completed.
One episode won the Main Prize in the Documentary Category in the Mediawawe International Short Film Festival in 1995.