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June 12. 2008.
Hungary's Parliament on Monday amended the motion picture law to bring it into line with the European Union regulations and limit state subsidies to productions with appropriate cultural content.June 12. 2008.
Chameleon is the first Hungarian film to lense at Korda Studios"A hospital, a surgery, an apartment and a TV studio are going to be built in Etyek" – was in the press release of Chameleon. Krisztina Goda’s third feature film is being shot at Korda Studios. The staff spends half of the shooting time (forty eight days), almost twenty days, in Etyek.
May 29. 2008.
On Media Information Day in Cannes Péter Bognár represented Hungary and talked about the results of the first VoD competition of Filmklik VoD-platform and Mediadesk. Filmklik initiated by Budapest Film is one of the biggest distribution companies which operates a VoD system in the European market. Despite the fact Filmklik can reach 100 million people, we must wait for a VoD explosion.May 27. 2008.
Hungary was represented in all significant categories at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival: feature films, short films, projects and producers were present in the Croisette. The Hungarian participation is evaluated by MMK secretary-general Erzsébet Tóth and HungariCom managing director Zsuzsa Kálomista. May 15. 2008.
Kordnél Mundruczó has been the second Hungarian in twenty years to compete for the Palm d’Or in the full-length features category Canes. Dániel Erdélyi’s short film 411-Z is being weighed against eight other shorts for the Golden Palm in its own category. Géza M. Tóth is presenting his work at Critics’ Week, while Balázs Simonyi is going in for the off programme at Critics’ Week. Dalma Hidasi is participating at the event entitled ‘Producer on the Move’ while Benedek Fliegauf’s new film script has been entered for the Atelier.April 16. 2008.
Considering Brussels’s observations, the Ministry of Education and Culture would modify the film law in Hungary.Filmhu discussed the necessities of changes and significances with vice artistic director Balázs Sámuel and Tamás Csutak, head of Abacus Consult Kft., a company participating in working out the modifications.
March 26. 2008.
The shooting of Pinprick started on 10th March in Erzsébettelek, in a villa in Buda. A girl gets the swindler Ervin Nagy hidden here in a wardrobe, until he sets his eye on the girl’s freshly divorced, and still very pretty mother. The film, which is produced by the Hungarian Skyfilm Studio and the Swiss Kontraproduktion AG, is directed by Daniel Young and stars Rachael Blake, who also starred in Lantana. March 21. 2008.
Finally, this summer Balázs Juszt can start shooting his very first movie, Cashflow. We interviewed the young London Royal Holloway and American UCLA film graduate about his soon-to-be shot action-comedy.March 19. 2008.
Too many films, not too much money, increase in claims for bank financing. Gábor Hegyi deputy general manager of Allianz Bank talks about film financing.March 12. 2008.
The film entitled Budapest, which is based on Chico Buarque de Hollanda’s novel with the same title, is made in co-production of the Brazilian Nexus Cinema e Video and the Hungarian Eurofilm Studio. The novel was published in Hungary in 2005: the central character writes popular books under the name of others, lives in Rio de Janeiro with his wife and son.March 11. 2008.
"Film language itself is risky" The following unfinished conversation took place in July 2004. We finished it almost four years later, before the premiere of The Man from London and it is like the making of a Tarr film in certain respect. And all those issues we talked about are still current today.
March 04. 2008.
During the making of a film several unexpected events may hinder or outright jeopardize the finishing of the movie or burden the budget with extra expenses.February 25. 2008.
The most prominent award ceremony of British animation, the British Animation Awards takes place every two years. "Actually it is like an Oscar ceremony, on 13th March the awards are presented in London.” – said Tibor Bánóczki to film.hu.February 21. 2008.
The new work by Ferenc Moldoványi who has also directed “Children, Kosovo 2000”, presented and awarded at several festivals, is also about the lives of children and it is not only a large-scale enterprise but at the same time a film with a global message and a great-impact film essay. The film follows the lives and hardships of exploited, enslaved and worked to the extreme children, seven lives altogether, on three continents (South America, Africa, South-East Asia) in four countries (Ecuador, Mexico, Congo and Cambodia).
February 08. 2008.
Talented Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó won the Golden Reel Award for Best Film at the 39th Hungarian Film Week for Delta.February 04. 2008.
The Balassi Bálint Institute organizes the meeting of the directors of Hungarian cultural institutes abroad with the country’s filmmakers and producers for the first time at the Filmweek. January 30. 2008.
Instead of an opening movie, indie rock band Hollywoodoo entertained the filmmakers present at the opening ceremony of the 39th Filmweek in the Millenáris Theatre, where the most significant industry prizes, such as the Árvai Jolán prize, the lifetime achievement awards of the Filmweek and the Master of Hungarian Motion Picture prize were handed out.January 21. 2008.
During the making of a film several unexpected events may hinder or outright jeopardize the finishing of the movie or burden the budget with surplus expenses. Minimizing these risks, it is in the best interest of production companies to have insurance. Discussing film insurance are deputy director of Allianz Hungária Bence Ötvös and director of product development Katalin Kerekes.January 20. 2008.
Zsolt Nagy (31), who first gained attention in a supporting role in Nimród Antal’s Control, recently starred in Erik Novák’s Nosedive and plays a central role in Kaméleon, the latest film by Krisztina Goda.January 19. 2008.
Gradually increasing production, increasing paid work capacity, just to mention the most important positive changes in film industy in Hungary last year. The support certificates issued have reached one and a half times as great as the sum in 2006 – said András Elek, director of the National Film Office of the National Office of Cultural Heritage (KÖH).