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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 » | |
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