Alexa Bakony is a Budapest-based filmmaker, a Sundance DFP Fellow and Berlinale Talents alumna. Her debut feature documentary, Colors of Tobi (2021), received the HBO Europe Development Award in 2020 and went on to win the Mermaid Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2021, followed by the Hungarian Film Critics Award in 2022. Her upcoming documentary, Highways of Hope, is supported by US-based Chicken amp; Egg Pictures and received the Best Doc in Progress Award from IETFA at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in 2025. Bakony graduated from The New School’s Documentary Media Studies program in New York City in 2026 as a Fulbright Scholar.