István Gábor Takács

István Gábor Takács is a human rights activist, videographer and trainer. He is the founder of the Video Advocacy Program of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, and headof the program between 2007-2015. He has been working in the field of harm reduction and drug policy reform advocacy since 2005. He worked as a needle exchange program counselor for 5 years. He was a presidential member of the Harm Reduction Association of Hungary between 2007-2012. He is author of several articles on harm reduction and cameraman, editor, director and co-director of more than 500 short online videos. He is the cameraman, director or co-director and editor of longer documentaries, such as “Without Rights” (2009), “Without a Chance” (2014), “Room in the 8th District” (2014) “The Invisible” (2011), “A Day in the Life: The World of Humans Who Use Drugs” (2017). His works have been awarded first prize multiple times at the Kreatív Webvideo Award, and he and his colleagues received the Hégető Honorka Award in 2013. At present he works at the Rights Reporter Foundation, where besides producing videos, he is training activists in video advocacy. He has trained around 100 activists in video advocacy.