According to György Báron’s article published in the leading weekly Élet és Irodalom in 2010, ‘the brilliant film selection at this year’s CineFest was the best of all Hungarian festival line-ups ever’; furthermore the Miskolc film muster was the first among the Hungarian film festivals to have entered the field of the great international festivals.
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Most papers, like the daily Magyar Nemzet, or the leading online magazine index.hu, the daily Népszabadság and also revizoronline.hu say, among others, that Jameson CineFest is Hungary’s leading international film festival.
His short film Judgment Call sic won Best Short Film on the Emmy-nominated PBS series 'The Short List', while his short film Dry Whiskey sic (executive produced by Fred Fuchs, former head of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope) has won multiple awards at various film festivals, including Best Film at Cinefest Sudbury 2005 and will appear in 2007 on Alliance Atlantis Showcase.
Premiering at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma where it was nominated for the Grand Prix Focus, The Woman of Ahhs was an official selection at numerous film festivals around the world, including Cinefest, the Sofia International Film Festival in Bulgaria, the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France, where it was presented at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Mexico International Film Festival where Paquette received the Bronze Palm Award.