Kriszta Doczy (born 9 October 1948 in Budapest) is a Hungarian/Australian film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and founder of Contemporary Arts Media, a distributor

Film distributor

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 of art films.

Kriszta Doczy has worked with experimental theater companies in Europe for nearly twenty years. She has worked as movement director and choreographer with theater and dance companies and has taught at universities and performing arts schools in Australia and in the USA. City University of New York

City University of New York

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. She launched her theater company, Shadow Industries (1996–1999) with the theatre adaptation of Peter Carey's short stories Do You Love Me and Peeling. She founded a physical theater training school (1993–1999), collaborated with actors from Australia and the UK. Her physical theatre adaptation of The Trial by Franz Kafka toured in New York, Singapore, Australia and South Korea.
In 2000 she established a film production/distribution company, Contemporary Arts Media (1996 – present), and is recognized as a significant company for developing Australian artists' work.

Kriszta Doczy now works as managing director of CAM, based in Melbourne, Australia. She has collaborated with a number of Australian and international artists and producers including Stelarc

Stelarc

Stelarc is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centred around his concept that the human body is obsolete...

, Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.-Life :...

, Sarah Jane Pell

Sarah Jane Pell

Sarah Jane Pell is an Australian artist researcher and commercial diver. Her works combine the traditions of body art, extreme performance art and human factors with underwater habitat and professional diving technologies....

, Chunky Move

Chunky Move

Chunky Move is an Australian contemporary dance company from Southbank, VictoriaIt was founded in 1995 and debuted at the Melbourne International Arts Festival with artistic director Gideon Obarzanek....

, Kartemquin Films

Kartemquin Films

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 and more.

Theatre work

New York

• KAFKA: THE TRIAL - 1999-2000, NEW YORK Queens College, Director/Adaptor
• TOURING: Suwon Hwasong Fortress International Theatre and Dance Festival
• RAQUELAN by Nora Glickman - Adaptation, Dramaturgy, Cornell University
  Cornell University
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Australia

• The Mule's Foal - Perth Theatre Company
  Perth Theatre Company
  Perth Theatre Company is a live theatre company in Perth, Western Australia. Its vision is "To lead Western Australian theatre in the creation of new, energetic and adventurous theatre that challenges and excites audiences and creates new opportunities for WA artists."-History:Perth Theatre...
  
   (Movement Director)
• Mrozek: Tango - Shadow Industries Theatre Company (Director / Choreographer)
• Do You Love Me? - by Peter Carey Shadow Industries Theatre Company (Producer / Director / Choreographer)
• Kafka - The Trial - Murdoch University
  Murdoch University
  Murdoch University is a public university based in Perth, Australia. It began operations as the state's second university in 1973, and accepted its first students in 1975...
  
   Performing Group (Adaptor / Director)
• Endangered Men - Physical Theatre (Director / Producer)
• The Deliverance of Dancing Bears - Barking Gecko Theatre Company
  Barking Gecko Theatre Company
  Barking Gecko Theatre Company is a Western Australian professional theatre company for young audiences, committed to producing inspirational and provocative theatre....
  
  , Festival of Perth (Movement Director)
• Making ALICE - Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (Choreography)
• Connections ... or Whatever - Perth City Ballet (Choreography)
• Love and all sort of things... Perth City Ballet (Choreography)
• One-Way Ticket - (Producer, Writer, Director, Performer)
• Festival of Perth - Street Theatre performance with HUSH School of Mime and Non-verbal Theatre (Director / Choreographer)
• On the Beach - Perth City Ballet Overseas Tour (Program Choreographer)
• There's a Desert in my Teapot - Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Festival of Perth (Performer)

International Tours 1996 - 1999

• Raw Festival, Singapore: Kafka: The Trial (Murdoch Performance Group from Perth)
• Suwon Hwasong Fortress International Theatre and Dance Festival Korea: Kafka: The Trial (Queens Company from New York)

International Tours 1969 - 1983 with the Domino Dance Company

• Amsterdam - Holland: International Mime Festival
• Prague - Czechoslovakia: World Festival of Mime
• Vienna and Insbruck - Austria: Cafe Theater
• Wroclav - Poland: Festival of Experimental Theatre
• Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao): 3rd International Theatre Festival
• Poland: Guest performances with regional companies
• Toronto - Canada: CBC Television production: “No Re-entry”
• Sofia, Varna - Bulgaria: National Theatre
• Vienna - Austria: Television Film: “The Silent Theatre”
• Bonn - Germany: Summer Festival
• Koln - Germany: “Gaukler 1980” Festival
• Germany, Holland - Guest performances

Publications

• Mime, Mask and Mask Making. 3 DVD Teaching resources
• Physical Theatre - Butoh and Beyond DVD
• Physical Acting: Characters (2001, Book and masks)
• A Workshop In Biomechanics DVD
• Expressive Gestures DVD
• Foreman Planet DVD
• Stelarc - The Body is Obsolete DVD

Contemporary Arts Media

In 2000 Kriszta Doczy funded Contemporary Arts Media which produces and distributes arts films.

External links

• The website of Kriszta Doczy's company: Contemporary Arts Media
• An article about Contemporary Arts Media
• Perth Theatre Company - Artist Profile
• The trailer for Kriszta Doczy's film: Stelarc - The Body is Obsolete
• Academic listing
• Dancehouse - Training
• Mule's Foal
• Interview with Richard Foreman
• Review from Teatrotaller