Gábor Zsigmond Papp was born in 1966 in Budapest, Hungary. He first graduated from University of ELTE Budapest, then he studied directing at Hungarian Film Academy of Budapest. He graduated in 1996. In 1990-1991 he recieved scholarship of the European Community to the University of Bologna, Faculty of Political Sciences. Since 1992 he has been working for Hungarian Broadcasting Company - programmes on literature, history, arts, theatre, cinema. He also works as a free lance translator (especially from the English).

Filmography:

Legenda/ The Legend (Hungary, 1994)
Tandori/ Tandori-Portrait of a Poet (57´, Hungary, 1996)
Házi feladat (4´, Hungary, 1996)
A baleset (9´, Hungary, 1996)
A kollégium végnapjai/ The Last Days of the College (62´, Hungary, 1996)
Kazo (50´, Hungary, 1997)
A Mándy-hagyaték/ The Novelist´s Heritage (18´, Hungary, 1998)
Budapest Retró 1 / Budapest retro I. (75´, Hungary, 1998)
Esterházy-vacsora/ Supper with Péter Esterházy (40´, Hungary, 1999)
Sihedernyi koromban/ In My Adolescence (Hungary, 2000)
Göncz (56´, Hungary, 2001)
A flaszter népe - Szülőfalum, Budapest/ My native Village: Budapest - Street people, Party People, Mall People (47´, Hungary, 2002)
Partik népe (51´, Hungary, 2002)
A birodalom iskolája/ The School of the Empire (Hungary, 2003)
Budapest Retró II./ Budapest retro II. (Hungary, 2003)
Hamvazószerda (64´, Hungary, 2004)
Life of an Agent/ Az ügynök élete (82´, Hungary, 2004)
A menekülő egyetem/ The University of Escape (52´, Hungary, 2005)
Balaton Retró / Balaton retro (82´, Hungary, 2007)
Kelet-nyugati átjáró (52´, Hungary, 2009)
Kémek a porfészekben/ Hick-Town Spy (51´, Hungary, 2009)