Demeter Lóránt (born 1982, Hungary) is a director, screenwriter, and animator whose career began in 1999 with his first amateur short horror film, "Picnic," followed by a series of short films. In 2003 he made his first professional short film, "Lag," which won the award for best editing at the New York Short Film Festival. He continued to explore the horror genre with two self-financed, more abstract works — "Royal Flush" and "Urine."

In 2005 Lóránt began developing a feature-length project, "Block-66," which ultimately was never realized. Changing direction, he immersed himself in animation and visual arts, directing more than 50 music videos for indie bands and becoming a leading artist in projection mapping. In 2010 he founded Full Screen Studio, which grew into one of Hungary's leading companies for producing visual content for events and projection mapping.

Lóránt returned to horror filmmaking in 2015 with "Lucky Girl," inspired by 1970s exploitation cinema and the French New Extremity. His 2020 science-fiction short "Alien Possessed" — a family story about a boy and his grandmother, who is possessed by an alien — received widespread acclaim, was shown at more than 40 festivals around the world, and earned numerous nominations and awards.

In 2023 he achieved his greatest success with SILEO — an animated science-fiction short based on the thought experiment "Ship of Theseus," which received selections, nominations, and awards at major genre film festivals around the world.