Margareta Szabo

Originally from Budapest, Hungary, Margareta Szabo is a documentary producer with a background in film and theatre. After graduation, Margareta began working as an actor before deciding to relocate to England. In 2012, she co-founded Labor of Love Films, a York-based production company specialising in character-driven, theatrical feature documentaries. Its output is known for its depth of integrity, craft and ability to push boundaries, entertain and inspire.

Margareta’s work includes the feature documentary A Bunch of Amateurs (2022), about Britain’s oldest amateur filmmaking club, which was released in more than 250 cinemas nationwide before being broadcast on the BBC’s Storyville strand. Among its many accolades, the film was nominated for two Grierson and The Big Screen awards. She also produced Voices of the Sea (2018), a Cuban love and migration story, which earned Best Documentary at the HBO New York Latino Film Festival and aired on PBS (POV), ARTE and BBC.

Currently, she is producing Still Pushing Pineapples, a uniquely British feature documentary about the worst record of the 1980s, an aging pop star, his spirited 89-year-old mother and his sassy girlfriend; supported by BFI Doc Society, Screen Scotland, Ffilm Cymru and Screen Yorkshire. Margareta is also producing The Local, a heartfelt feature documentary that pays affectionate tribute to community, humanity and the great British pub.

Margareta is an alum of Berlinale Talents and Sheffield DocFest’s Future Producer initiatives (both 2016), and was selected for Creative Enterprise’s Female Founders programme (2022-2023). In 2023, she mentored a Ukrainian documentary producer as part of Screen Yorkshire’s mid-career mentoring initiative, Next Level.