Demeter Lorant (born 1982, Hungary) is a director, writer, and animator whose career began in 1999 with his first amateur horror short, Picnic, followed by a series of short films. In 2003, he directed his first professional short, Lag, which won Best Editing at the New York Short Film Festival. He continued exploring the horror genre with two self-financed, more abstract works, Royal Flush and Urine.