On The Spot is an award-winning documentary series, digging for human stories behind the news with two cameras, without a crew, giving the films extraordinary intimacy and honesty from the revolution in Egypt to earth quakes in Japan. The motto of the series is from Robert Capa, the Hungarian war photographer: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." The filmmakers have rece
ived the Press Freedom Award in Strasbourg from the Council of Europe and the Golden Nymph for Best Documentary at the 53rd Monte Carlo TV Festival. "On The Spot: Gaza" has got the Gold Plaque at the 50th Chicago International Film Festival TV-Awards and the prize for "Best Foreign Short Documentary" at the American Documentary Film Festival in 2014. Takacs are documentary filmmakers, creators, presenters and producers of On The Spot, aired by SundanceTV, Hungarian Public Tv, Spektrum Tv. Their series Children of Dictators was broadcasted on ZDF Info, Spiegel Geschichte, Deutsche Welle, etc. They have produced over 75 hour-long documentaries in Afghanistan, French Guyana, Bissau Guinea, Ethiopia, India (Varanasi, Delhi, Dharamsala and Kashmir), Nepal (the Mount Everest, Kathmandu and the Rolpa region), Bolivia, Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, Svalbard, Sri Lanka, Burma, Iran, Mauritania, South Africa, Japan, Egypt, the United States, Cuba, Germany, Indonesia and the Maldives. They have filmed with world leaders like Ban Ki-moon or Evo Morales, Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama but always focused on the stories of ordinary people living in the background of the news. They filmed with gangsters in the ghettos of Johannesburg, were embedded on front lines, lived in tribes, covered tsunamis and revolutions, worked under-covered in Burma and Iran. Their "rare and exclusive" footage appeared on BBC World and CNN International too. "Rare and exclusive"
BBC World
"Takacs and Cseke plunge their cameras into the heart of the action, asking questions that are normally suppressed"
Financial Times
