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EFP Producer on the Move: Judit Stalter

EFP Producer on the Move: Judit Stalter

"I feel lucky because my job is my hobby too", says Judit Stalter, Hungary's European Film Promotion 2012 Producer on the Move bővebben

Heat in Development

Mihaly Schwechtje is developing Heat, a black-comedy set in a small village an involving love, friendship, sex, lies and some pregnant goats. bővebben
Robert Pejo is developing Paw

Robert Pejo is developing Paw

Robert Pejo is developing Paw, an inspiring story of an amazing rescue dog and his trainer and focusing on friendship, compassion and love. bővebben
Kenyeres Balint in Pre-production with Hier

Kenyeres Balint in Pre-production with Hier

Hungarian director Kenyeres Balint will shoot his first feature, Hier, in Morroco for seven weeeks and in Hungary for one week fall 2012. bővebben
Berlinale 2012: Prize winners: Golden Bear goes to Taviani Doc

Berlinale 2012: Prize winners: Golden Bear goes to Taviani Doc

In a year that critics agreed presented an outstandingly high level of films in competition the second highest honour went to Bence Fliegauf for Just the Wind. bővebben
Hungarian 2012 Grants Announced

Hungarian 2012 Grants Announced

Károly Ujj Mészáros's first feature, Liza, the Fox Fairy/Liza, a rókatündér, János Szász's The Notebook/A nagy füzet and Gyula Nemes's Zero received 1,283,470 Euro. bővebben
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Weekend postponed in Hungary

Weekend postponed in Hungary

The shooting of the new film of director Áron Mátyássy - who with his first feature (Utolsó idők / Last Times) won the main prize of the Hungarian Film Week - due to the financial problems within the Hungarian Motion Picture Association is postponed to next year. According to producer Gergely Fodor the shooting was planned to start on 2nd of August, with all permissions and locations already obtained and booked.   bővebben

Two Hungarian film projects presented in Paris

Mirage, the next film of director Szabolcs Hajdu (Bibliotheque Pascal, White Palm) and Hier (Tegnap) of Bálint Kenyeres (The History of Aviation, short) have been selected to the co-production forum and development platform organised within the Paris Cinéma International Film Festival. The event called Paris Project takes place between 5th and 7th of July and the 14 projects which will be presented to producers and distributors have been selected from more than 300 applications. bővebben

Emerson and Co. – The First Hungarian 3D Movie

Krisztina Goda (director of Children of Glory and Just Sex and Nothing Else) just got a declaration of intent for funding from the Hungarian Motion Picture Association (MMKA) for the first Hungarian 3D movie. Emerson and Co. (Emerson és Tsa) will be an adaptation of a children story written by Levente Lezsák. bővebben
MEDIA support again for CineFest Hungary

MEDIA support again for CineFest Hungary

The international film festival held in the northern Hungarian city of Miskolc has received second year in a row the support of the MEDIA program of the European Union. The festival (CineFest) grows every year in size and prestige, several cult-films have started here their Hungarian carreer. However the MEDIA support means that the festival will screen mainly European productions – this being one of the main conditions of the funding. bővebben

Documentary Project Development Workshop and Film Festival

More than 40 documentary films from 15 countries will be presented at the 6th Dialect Film Festival in Budapest. The festival looks for the anthropological content of the films and usually selects docs which present and analyse the way of life and culture of people in unprivileged situation. The event will take place between 23-28 of June and the international jury will choose the winners from three sections. bővebben
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