All articles by Blanka Elekes Szentagotai – Page 6
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Hungarian filmmakers shine at Szolnok film festival
Hungarian filmmakers stole the show at The International Film Festival of Fine Arts in Szolnok in HungaryThe jury, led by film critic Gyorgy Baron awarded the festival's Grand Prize to Hungarian director Istvan Orosz' Black Hole-White Hole (pictured). The jury awarded the rest of the prizes in three categories, ...
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Hungary's porno-music drama Mix wraps in Budapest
"Music, love, porn", is how writer-director-producers Steven and Robert Lovy describe their latest film, Mix, that has just finished shooting in Budapest. The film's main character is a talented, American teenager who, following his father's wish, is preparing to become a pianist while secretly cherishing plans to become a DJ. ...
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Szolnok adds Eastern market to festival mix
The town of Szolnok in eastern Hungary will next week (Oct 1-6) host its annual International Film Festival of Fine Arts along with an international film market. The festival, founded over thirty years ago, includes 130 films in competition across three categories: documentary, experimental and animation. Thirty features and shorts ...
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Hungary celebrates new box-office champion
Hungarian director Gabor Herendi's A Kind Of America, the story of a young film director longing to make his feature debut, has become the most successful Hungarian film ever. In addition, it is now also the film that has spent the most weeks in the box office top ten, pushing ...
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Los Angeles organisation to promote Hungarian films
A new Los Angeles-based non-profit organisation is aiming to promote Hungarian films in the international market, starting with securing a Golden Globe nomination for Robert Koltai's Mayday Mayhem (pictured).Friends of Hungarian Cinema was founded by seven founders, including film distribution expert Bela Bunyik. One of the main ambitions of ...
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Two Eastern European countries boost national film funds
The newly-appointed Hungarian ministry of culture has awarded $3.3m (HUF 800m) in immediate cash for its struggling local film industry, while in neighbouring Slovakia a new law has been passed requiring broadcasters and exhibitors to contribute to the country's production funds.In Hungary, cultural minister Gabor Gorgey and minister of financial ...
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InterCom co-founder returns to shake up Hungary's DVD market
After five years away from the industry George Mihaly, the former Hungarian partner of Andy Vajna, is back on the film scene with a new DVD venture called Ariel International. Mihaly who built the Budapest-based InterCom into Hungary's leading distribution and exhibition outfit during the early nineties was ousted by ...
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Mama, Look! gets attention at Mediawave festival
British director Grant Thobur's production Mama, Look! was awarded the Grand Prize at this year's Mediawave International Festival of Visual Arts in Gyor, Hungary. Dutch films were also very successful at Mediawave 2002 receiving the awards for Best Dance Film and Best Experimental Film. In the documentary category, Russian films ...
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Mixed reception for Star Wars: Episode II in Eastern Europe
Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack Of The Clones has achieved the biggest opening ever in Hungary, overtaking the record set by Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring. Clones, which opened with 37 copies in 25 cinemas also produced the biggest attendance ever on its ...
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Transylvania launches first international film festival
Transylvania will host its first international film festival between June 3-9 in the city of Cluj, with a competitive strand for first and second features. The competition program comprises twelve titles, including: Peter Callahan's Last Ball (USA) Sean Garrity's Inertia (Canada)Cristi Puiu's Marfa Si Banii (Romania)Eric Assous' Sexes Tres Opposes ...
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Can Hungary's Bridgeman cross-over to commercial success'
Historical biopic Bridgeman, the most expensive film ever produced in Hungary, opened last week with the country's fourth highest weekend gross ever for a local film. But despite national interest in the subject matter, controversy has erupted over the government's massive $2.5m investment in the $6m film, when the Hungarian ...
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Chico takes Hungarian Film Week prize
Ibolya Fekete's film Chico - about a mercenary who fights in many of the 20th century's revolutionary conflicts - has walked away with the Hungarian Film Week's main feature film prize. Chico is just one of a number of films credited with injecting a more populist note into the Hungarian ...
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Hungary's most expensive film ever set to roll
Bridgeman, at $5m, the biggest-budget Hungarian film of all time, is due to start shooting in the last week of May or the first week of June. The movie tells the life story of István Szechenyi, the 19th century Hungarian revolutionary.The film had a planned budget of $6m (1.8 billion ...
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Filmstudio launches Hungarian festival season
Hungary's Budapest Filmstudio, headed by Laszlo Kantor, is launching a series of film festivals in neighbouring countries with the aim of increasing exposure of Hungarian films.The festivals, which will be targeted at general audiences as well as local industry and critics, will showcase the 10-12 movies that proved most popular ...
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FilmMuseum set to launch in Hungary
A new cable and satellite channel, FilmMuseum, is scheduled to launch in Hungary on November 15. Backed by private investors, the channel plans to screen Hungarian films and TV programming produced before 1980. It will initially broadcast for 14 hours a day.The channel is funded for three years and plans ...
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Chaplin Film to back competition winners
Hungarian production company Chaplin Film and web-site www.magyar.film.hu have selected five treatments from their joint screenwriting competition which Chaplin plans to develop into full-length screenplays.The winning projects include Propulsion by Balazs Loth, Dead Channel by Miklos Varga and Andras Horvath, Champion Factory by Istvan Bernath and family dramas Lajcsi, The ...
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Hungary's Bacso to take on diva's life story
Hungarian director Peter Bacso is developing a biopic of Hungarian diva Katalin Karady, with the working title This Great Love I Was Given For You, for local production outfit Megafilm. Set during World War II in Budapest and the Ukraine, the film will revolve around singer-actress Karady, her lover and ...
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India, Hungary line up two co-productions
Indian film-maker Ramesh Sharma is set to produce and direct a biopic of Hungarian scientist Sandor Korosi Csoma, one of two Indian-Hungarian co-productions set to shoot early next year. Transylvanian writer Laszlo Csiki and Geza Bethlenfalvy, an expert on Korosi Csoma's work, are scripting the project which will follow the ...
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Hungary's culture body picks millennium winners
Hungary's National Cultural Heritage Ministry has awarded a total of 150m forints ($535,000) to six feature projects which it has deemed representative of Hungarian life.The projects were chosen as part of a competition held to mark the end of the millennium. The first project, Peter Kukac From Nagyapat Is Going ...
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Hungary's Meszaros lines up Marie Curie biopic
Marta Meszaros, one of Hungary's best known female directors, is developing a biopic of Polish-born French scientist Marie Curie, to be produced by Polish production outfit Akson Studio. The project follows Curie's final years when, made ill by her own discovery, radium, she returns to her homeland to say goodbye ...