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Hungarian Movies at the 63th Cannes Film Festival August 24, 2010 Ágnes Kocsis’s film, "Pál Adrienn" (producer Ferenc Pusztai) was invited to the Cannes Film Festival "Un Certain Regard" section. The special effects of the film are prepared by the digital post production studio of the Magyar Filmlabor, the Front Productions under the guidance of Csaba Juhasz. The Israeli "The Wanderer" production was also invited to Cannes. It was made in a standard 35-mm post production, the works of the film have been completed by the end of April. Also at the Cannes Film Festival "Un Certain Regard" section will be presented the Romanian "Tuesday, After Christmas" production, which was shooted to celluloid, but it has undergone a complete digital post-production in the Magyar Filmlabor. more » The Jerusalem Film Festival Awards August 24, 2010 We are very delighted that two films, which post-production was made by the Magyar Filmlabor, also won an award on the Jerusalem Film Festival. The festival took place between 08th and 17th of July. We hereby congratulate to the crew and the production company! The Haggiag Award for Best Feature Film: Intimate Grammar (Director: Nir Bergman) The film’s colorist and grader, Szabolcs Barta added about the artists: "The talent is difficult to tell." The Van Leer Award for Best First/Second Feature Film: The Wanderer (director: Avishai Sivan) The exampler of the director is Bela Tarr – told us Eva Balog, the grader of the film. more » Our new digital services: DCP and Red One post production August 24, 2009 The spread of the digital cinema is highly progressive that is why from now on Magyar Filmlabor provides the new technology of DCP (Digital Cinema Packages) preparation to its customers. Besides, we offer to do all post production tasks related to Red One camera. We are able to offer the full scale of laboratory services to even the huge international productions with the highest demands. more » The post production of the new Jancsó-film in Filmlabor August 24, 2009 Director Miklós Jancsó is shooting his new historical drama titled ’Oda az igazság’ about King Matthias. It’s not about the always righteous king from the Hungarian folklore, but about a realistic man, who had to grow up in a very early age to be the Hungarian king and to hold on in the midst of continuous fights for power. The film concentrates on the beginning and the end of Matthew’s reign, namely rising to power and the questions of the succession. The DOP is Nyika Jancsó, the producer is József Berger (Mythberg Films), Jákob Ladányi acts as the young king and László Gálffi as the old one. The film has been shooting in Hungary, Austria and Poland. The post production of the film has already started in the Magyar Filmlabor. The special effects of the film are prepared by the digital post production studio of the Magyar Filmlabor. more » Hungarian films in Sarajevo Festival with the mediation of Magyar Filmlabor August 11, 2009 Numerous Hungarian movies, filmmakers and professionals will attend the leading festival of the region, the Sarajevo Film Festival, which kicks off the 12th August. György Pálfi’s I’m Not Your Friend, a surprising feature based on improvisations, will be screened at the “In Focus" selection of the Sarajevo Festival which is lining up prominent film directors – the Filmunio says. Among the short films, Bálint Kenyeres’s The History of Aviation premiered in Cannes, Géza M. Tóth’s Mama, a tale of a worldwide hanging out will participate in the competition. Among the shorts Lili Horváth’s Sunstroke also will be screened out of competition. The post production of these film were made by the Magyar Filmlabor, we wish the film makers great success! more » New success in Karlovy Vary with the mediation of FilmLab July 22, 2009 The 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will be held these days, which is the only A-category international film festival in Central Europe – the Hungarian Filmunio says. FIAPF producer association register only 12 international film festival with the mentioned qualification, like the most famous ones in Berlin, Cannes and Venice. In Karlovy Vary only films made after January 1, 2008 which haven’t been previously shown in the competition of another international film festival may be included; films selected are generally world, international or European premiers. more » Vila do Conde Main Prize for The History of Aviation July 21, 2009 Bálint Kenyeres’ short film won Main Prize at the Vila do Conde International showcase, and received the Portugal Public Television’s Onda Curtas Award as well. more » HAPPY NEW YEAR! January 1, 2009 WE WISH ALL OUR PARTNERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR! more » International successes with the mediation of the FilmLab June 6, 2008 Several films that were made by the FilmLab have recently reached international success such as Oscar nominations and awards at international film festivals. We try to summarize the most important world successes to which the FilmLab contributed in the years of 2007 and 2008. more » Kornél Mundruczó’s DELTA won the FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes. May 26, 2008 Among highly interesting competitors invited to the Cannes competition, the critics jury presided by Howard Feinstein favorized Delta, 3rd film by Kornél Mundruczó, about an incest relation in the dreary landscape of the Danube delta. Delta post production works were done in Hungarian Filmlab. more » Ergo selected for Semaine Internationale de la Critique’s competition May 7, 2008 International Critics’ Week presents Géza M. Tóth’s latest animation, Ergo. Year by year altogether seven shorts and seven first feature films are invited to the oldest parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. The international audience has the chance to see Ergo in Cannes for the first time. Ergo post production works were done in Hungarian Filmlab. more » Hungarian film in official competiton programme of the Cannes Film Festival April 25, 2008 Delta by Kornél Mundruczo is invited to the official competition programme of the Cannes Film Festival. The world premiere of Delta was hosted by Hungary’s national showcase, the 39th Hungarian Film Week where it won the "Golden Reel" main prize, the Best Original Music (Félix Lajkó) and foreign critics’ Gene Moskowitz Prize. Delta post production works were done in Hungarian Filmlab. 411-Z by Dániel Erdélyi has been selected for the short film competition. 411-Z will have the chance to compete for best short film’s Palme d’Or in Cannes. more » A The World Is Big... world premiere March 19, 2008 The "World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner" ( Светът е голям и спасение дебне отвсякъде ) based on a novel by Ilija Trojanow, took home the Kodak prize for best Bulgarian feature film. Winning again, in its Sofia debut this time in the eyes of the public, the Bulgarian-German-Slovenia-Hungarian co-production won "viewers’ choice" prize. Directed by Stephan Komandarev the film was produced by the hungarian partner Inforg Stúdió among others. According to the producer Muhi András "The World Is Big …" had the largest budget of recent bulgarian productions totaling over two million Euroes. The complete post production works, including digital works, were done by The Hungarian Filmlab. more » Brasilian crew shoot "Budapeste" in Budapest, Hungary March 19, 2008 Brasilian Nexus Cinema e Video in cooproduction with hungarian Eurofilm Stúdió finished shooting a feature, titled after our capital city Budapest, an adoptation of Chico Buarque de Hollanda’s novel of the same title. The director Walter Carvalho known mainly as a DoP. from his works "Central do Brasil", "Madame Sata" and "Carandiru" – a riot in a penitentiary. The "Budapeste" was shoot by his son Lula Carvalho the DoP of "Tropa de Elite". This year "Tropa de Elite" took the Golden Bear in Berlin. The production contracted The Hungarian Filmlab for post production works. Thank you for their cooperation and we wish them all the best. more » Oscar nomination January 23, 2008 The israeli "Beaufort" has been nominated to the Oscar competition in the category of the Best Foreign Film together with four other features, such as the austrian "Die Falschere", the kazahstanian "Mongol", the polish "Katyn" and the russian "12". The full laboratory and digital postproduction works of "Beaufort" were done in the Hungarian Film Laboratories. more » A new acknowledgement to the Hungarian Filmlab: “The Trap" and “Beaufort" among the nine Oscar nominated foreign films! January 16, 2008 Two feature films, “The Trap" and “Beaufort", the entire traditional and digital postproduction works of which were done in the Hungarian Filmlab, are now in competition among the nine that were nominated for the "Best Foreign Film" category. The serbian thriller by Srdan Golubovic and the israeli feature by Joseph Cedar compete for the highest prize of the motion picture industry with the new works of other internationally appreciated directors such as Guiseppe Tornatore, Andrzej Wajda és Nyikita Mihalkov. The Academy will announce on the 22nd of January which five films out of the nine are nominated for the Oscar in the category of "Best Foreign Film of 2007". more » Baselight 4. has arrived to the Filmlab October 2, 2007 We have recently improved our resolution indipendent Baselight digital color corrector system, as several new versions were created and manufactured during the last four years that have passed since our last improvement in 2003. Besides the Baselight 1., we installed a new Baselight 4. system, which is more effective in speed and capacity than its predecessor. It also offers the possibility for a real-time 4k coloring with projector and of course it is resolution independent. We will keep the Baselight 1. as well, in order to be able to adapt ourselves better this way to the productional demands. more » Spirit HD received a professional award at the NAB July 27, 2007 The products of the Thomson Grass Valley received seven awards at the National Association of Broadcasters exhibition in Los Angeles this year. The Spirit HD DataCine® System, the brand new machine of the Hungarian Film Laboratory, is among the awarded ones. Further technical information: http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/docs/DataSheets/film/spirit_hd/FIL-1021D-1.pdf more » Considerably large digital development in the Hungarian Filmlab July 25, 2007 We are continuously expanding and improving our technical background and equipments in accordance with the development strategy of the lab. As a result of our current, 1.6 million Euro worth investment, we are able to offer the full scale of laboratory services to even the huge international productions with the highest demands, from the shoting till the release prints including even the most advanced technology requiring broadcast materials. The lab’s digital film postproduction system, in the same way as at the world’s main laboratories, performs the video dailies and the most precise frame by frame final digitalization in two entirely different systems: a separate telecine and scanner. We have recently developed our telecine, the daVinci and the relating accessories, with the aim of reaching a system enable to process HD video dailies, commercials and broadcast materials that meet with the highest expectations. The digital film (DI - Digital Intermediate) postproduction works are still based on the chain of Northlight scanning - Baselight colouring - Arrilaser recording, which chain will soon be improved by the capacity enlarging Northlight 2 and Baselight 4. more » "Good" and "100 Feet" finished their shooting July 20, 2007 Two US fetures, the "Good" and "100 Feet" succesfully finished their shooting in Hungary at the begining of July. Both productions contracted with the Hungarian Filmlab for the laboratory regarding the shooting period. more » Hungarian film in official competiton programme of the Cannes Film Festival May 21, 2007 Following a 19 year break this is the first time that a Hungarian film director’s feature, The Man from London by Béla Tarr is invited to the official competition programme of the Cannes Film Festival. The Man from London post production works were done in Hungarian Filmlab. more » HAPPY NEW YEAR! December 29, 2006 WE WISH ALL OUR PARTNERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR! more » Digital Colour Correction with Projector November 6, 2006 We upgraded our Baselight suite with a JVC DLA HD-2K digital projector in January. This projector can be calibrated according to different film raw stocks. Further to this we have installed a professional screen. This ’canvas’ is remote controlled: we can set different screen size and aspect ratio. As a result, our clients can work in a real cinema environment, watching projected images during the digital colour correction. more » Increased Storage capacity for DI November 6, 2006 Our storage for DI exceeds 25 TB. It gives a faster, more flexible and even more effective digital post production chain. more » The Popular Northlight Scanner November 6, 2006 Our scanner has met our expectations: the amount of digital post production work is 3 times more than it was in last year. We are going to use our scanner during the post production of about 8 new features till the beginning of the Hungarian Film Festival 2007. more » New Infrared Option for Our Northlight Scanner November 6, 2006 Our Northlight scanner was the first machine equipped with infrared option among Northlight scanners all over the world. Why is that important? The colour film is transparent to the infrared light but dust and dirt blocks the way of that light. So we can create a dust/dirt map on the basis of that physical effect. We can use that process for 16 and 35 mm film, too. more » New colleague November 6, 2006 Patricia Varga has been the new communication manager of the Hungarian Film Laboratory since this October. She holds a degree in communication from the University of Szeged. Previously she worked as an editor and a reporter for TV2, Echo TV and for the Hungarian Catholic Radio. more » Baselight news May 17, 2006 The Hungarian Filmlab has made again further development on its existing digital color correction system: - The processing power of the computer has increased with more than 70 % - The system can ingest HD video material – it can handle1080 and 720 i,p, psf formats according to 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 sampling rule (eg.: HDcam SR) - On customer request we can offer Sony Broadcast HD monitor for grading more » Projector Based Digital Colour Correction in Hungarian Filmlab February 3, 2006 One of the most important goal of the Hungarian Filmlab is continously expanding its scope of services. We have developed our Baselight digital colour correction system: we installed a JVC HD-2K digital projector. This device has native HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixel), and contrast ratio higher than 1:2000. Further this we also installed a professional remote controlled screen. more » Northlight Film Scanner in Hungrarian Filmlab February 3, 2006 The novelty of 2006 of the Hungarian Filmlab is a high resolution, high capacity film scanner: Northlight. more » HAPPY NEW YEAR! January 10, 2006 WE WISH ALL OUR PARTNERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR ON BEHALF OF ALL EMPLOYEES OF MAGYAR FILMLABOR! more » New Scanner in Magyar Filmlabor November 23, 2005 Magyar Filmlabor has bought a new Northlight scanner. We are about installing this scanner that can digitalize films in cinemascope quality. more » Restoration of old Hungarian Films November 23, 2005 Magyar Filmlabor will finish the digital restoration of old Hungarian films for the National Film Archives in November. World wide known films got restored and the cameramen of these oldies also take part in the work. more » Official Award Ceremony of the 36th Hungarian Film Week February 8, 2005 The 36th Hungarian Film Week has come to an end. The jury of feature films gave the prize in the category of the best director to Áron Gauder for his movie The District. more » The 36th Hungarian Film Week February 1, 2005 The 36th Hungarian Film Week was held from 1st to 8th of February. To our great pride The Hungarian Film Laboratory had the honour to make the logo animation film for the 36th Hungarian Film Week. more » Pesti Harlem January 17, 2005 After a long break the shooting of Pesti Harlem-made by Newbalance Ltd.- has continued. An agreement has been achived between Magyar Filmlabor (MF) and production team regarding scheduelles and further tasks. more » Velvet Side of the Hell January 10, 2005 After long preplannings, it is certain to say that the american feature film titled; the Velvet Side of Hell produced by Sandstorm Films - which is part of the Sony Picture Group - will have it’s laboratory works done with MF. According to plans, the shooting of the film will last six weeks. more » New colleagues January 3, 2005 The MF’s team has expanded - and has become more youthful - with the arrival of some new colleagues. Zsolt Gémes as film editor in the Digital Studio; Ádám Halász as colorist in the Video Studio; Zoltán Horváth as IT system operator; and last - but definitely not least - Andrea Viniczai as communication manager will be working in our ’family’ for the future. more » Happy New Year! January 1, 2005 To all present and future partners, in the name of all employee at Magyar Filmlabor we wish You a Happy and Successful New Year! more » Christmas Party December 17, 2004 The MF had its Christmas Party on the A38 party-boat. To our joy - despite of the terrible weather conditions - most of our business partners, illustrious representatives of the film industry has appeared and celebrated with us. more » The New Look of MF November 30, 2004 We have renewed the image of Magyar Filmlabor. With hopes of making our partners stay more pleasent. more » Magyar Filmlabor and the University of Theatre and Film November 25, 2004 An agreement has been concluded between János Kende, Head of the Television and Cameraman Department of the University of Theatre and Film and István Erdélyi, Managing Director of Magyar Filmlabor. more » HD System - For the first time in Hungary November 10, 2004 Postworking with HD System for the first time in Hungary, only at MF. Working with such -worthy to mention- eqquippment as: more » A Hungarian Filmlaboratory awarded the best cameraman and directorial scene at 35th Hungarian filmparade February 7, 2004 On 3rd February the best directorial scene prize was awarded to Andras Jeles, the director of "József és testvérei" The prize was offered by MRC and Hungarian Filmlaboratory. The best cameraman prize was awarded to Gabor Medvigy for "Másnap" and to Gyula Pados for "Kontroll". more » Award ceremony at 50th Croatian filmparade November 3, 2003 Gabor Pinter, HFL’s South-East European representative, and Jiry Menzel awarded a 5000 Euro prize to Zringo Ogresta, the director of the winner movie at the 50th Croatian Filmparade in Pula. more » New movie film scanner September 5, 2003 Our new scanner was set up at the beginning of summer, which provides better facilities at speed (5 sec/picture), definition (2k/4k, RGB) and quality (homogenity, cleareness) than earlier. more » HD in the Laboratory September 5, 2003 We have entered into a cooperation contract with HD Budapest Company. So the companies provide full service in the field of HD. Significant discounts. more » Award ceremony at 18th Yugoslavian Filmparade August 5, 2003 In Herceg Novi, this year’s Yugoslavian filmparade the jury (Milos Paramentity, director of Belgrad FEST filmparade, Karoly Vicsek film director and Gabor Pinter) awarded the HFL’s prize to Goran Markovity for "Kordon" and to Milos Petricsity for "Almost most extraordinay story" more » Laser subtitling March 25, 2003 The second laser subtitler will be set up from the middle of April in the Hungarian Film Laboratory. The capacity of this modern technology will be twice bigger, which means, that films of foreign language shown in Hungarian movies will be presented with laser subtitlers. more » The Lion in Winter March 24, 2003 The new film of Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart was being shot in Hungary between 1st. January and 1st. March. "The lion in Winter" is made to the order of Hallmark Entertainment in cooperation of HCC Studio. more » Party in the Laboratory March 11, 2003 At the beginning of the year we held our laboratory party in Club "Kaméleon" in honour of our partners thanking for their cooperation. Our guests took part in a smorgasboard reception after the greeting and opening speech of managing director István Eredélyi. more » Digital outlook professional symposyum 2003 March 11, 2003 On 5-6-7th. March a further training was held in the Laboratory by H.S.C. again for the students of Society of Hungarian Cameramen and for the cameramen of the University of Dramatic and Cinematic Art. more » Hungarian Filmlaboratory is re-colouring Ludas Matyi February 10, 2003 National Hungarian Filmarchivum presented the renovated parts of the movie ont he 35th Hungarian Filmparade. The Fimlmlab’s new results of digital development debuted with the remake of Kálmán Nadasdy’s Ludas Matyi (1949). They are done with the 3rd and 4th part of the film. more » Commemoration December 20, 2002 The film world commemorates the centenary of the birth of István Eiben on 20th. December 2002. On the occasion of commemoration the statue of István Eiben will be set up again and a new memorial tablet will be inaugurated at the front door of the Hungarian Film Laboratory. more » Laser subtitling - the most up-to-date technology already in Hungary December 6, 2002 Hungarian Film Laboratory is the first in Hungary to provide laser subtitling service.This year November the most modern CTM Debrie laser subtitler arrived which will join in the production from December. The main point of the procedure is that the subtitle is burnt into the emulsion of the film by the laser beam. more » Party of the Film Laboratory November 8, 2002 A pleasent party, where roast pig could be tasted, was held at the beginning of October where cameramen, directors, representatives of advertising agencies, journalists - so the cream of the trade - were present. more » Renewed digital department September 12, 2002 On 15th. September 2001 old members of the Front Film team joined the HFL. Effects of the film "Bánk-bán" was made by the HFL. The leader of the new digital department became Balázs Schifter who used to be the colleague of Varga&Saint Studio. more » New colorist: Larry Engelman September 12, 2002 Larry Engelman joined the team of HFL (Hungarian Film Laboratory) at the beginning of this year. He started his career as a grader so he knows traditional technology very well. He has great experience: He has been working as a colorist for 15 years. more » New members of the team September 12, 2002 New graders, new machines Éva Balog, experienced colleague of the Film Laboratory and our new graders, who are high qualified experts, have been taught by Stefan Rehak, the well-known grader from Wien. more » Web page and news coloumn September 12, 2002 Welcome on the renewed web page of Hungarian Film Laboratory. In the course of viewing the menus you can get to know the History of Hungarian Film Laboratory. more »