OUR REFERENCES

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  CANON / PROJECT IMAGINATION – THE TRAILER

  GREY New York, US / Filmed in Budapest

  Canon U.S.A., along with Ron Howard (two-time Academy Award® Winner) and Josh Hutcherson (star of “The Hunger Games” franchise), announce the names of 15 finalists in the Project Imagination: The Trailer contest. The contest, which drew a flood of submissions, encouraged people of all skill levels to turn their photos and video footage into movie trailers with titles, Hollywood style voice-overs and epic soundtracks. The winning trailer will inspire a Hollywood short film directed by Ron Howard and starring Josh Hutcherson.

  In Budapest’s magnificent Puskin movie theater, Ron and Josh watched the trailers and announced the finalists.

  HOW WE HELPED We arranged full crew, equipment, as well as on set and studio post production.

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  MALIBU RUM / BEST SUMMER EVER

  Across the Pond, UK / Filmed in Budapest

  Online video commercial / reality show featuring five young and trendy youths who travel the world.

  HOW WE HELPED We worked creatively with the producers to find the best locations for the show’s spirit, and arranged location permits and transport.

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  BIZARRE FOODS DELICIOUS DESTINATIONS / US TRAVEL CHANNEL

  TREMENDOUS ENTERTAINMENT, USA/ Filmed in Budapest.

  Award-winning Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern is back for its 12th record-breaking year as Andrew spans the globe exploring cultures and meeting colorful characters through the strange and wonderful foods they prepare and eat.

  Bizarre Foods is winner of two prestigious James Beard awards and is the longest running series still in premieres on Travel Channel!

  HOW WE HELPED We worked with the producers to find the best food stories in Budapest, arranged local production crew, a wide variety of public and private locations, translation, transport, etc.

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  THE GREAT OVERLAND ADVENTURE

  Purple Monkey for NDTV, India/ As European line producer / Shot in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Italy, France, UK, Spain

  Broadcast since October 2015 on New Delhi Television, the most watched news and lifestyle network in India, and sponsored by Mercedes-Benz, The Great Overland Adventure is a journey of true epic proportions as the crew navigate the made-in-India Mercedes-Benz GLA on an adventure across the globe.

  HOW WE HELPED We helped develop the full European schedule for the shoot, advised and arranged border crossings in and out of Europe, found and negotiated with local fixers in all European countries and coordinated local interviewees and filming permits (incl. drone filming permits).

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  GTC White House

  bigSMALL TV, UK / Filmed in Budapest

  A unique commercial for a unique building project, directed by Robbie Newby.

  HOW WE HELPED We worked with the producers to find the best Budapest shots for the commercial, find relevant archive footage, secure location permits, a drone shoot, transport and sound post-production.

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  BBC ARABIC / HARD TALK

  BBC, UK/ Filmed in Budapest

  Interview with Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szíjjártó

  BBC’s Rasha Qandeel interviews Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szíjjártó about the refugee crisis.

  HOW WE HELPED We arranged crew and equipment for the interview.

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  Talents Without Money / SBS 6

  Talpa Media , Netherlands/ Filmed in Budapest

  Talpa Media, the distributor of The Voice, is the producer of the new reality TV series Talents Without Money. Broadcast prime time on Saturday nights on SBS6, the show follows the adventures of Dutch celebrities Nick & Simon as they travel the world “without money”.

  HOW WE HELPED We worked with the producers to find the best stories for the show and arranged contacts, location permits, transport and equipment.

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  EL FERENGA SEASON 2 / 2015

  Rhyme Media for Al Nahar TV , Egypt / Filmed in Budapest

  HOW WE HELPED We arranged Hungarian cast, crew, equipment, transport, a wide variety of public and private locations, etc.

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  THE STING FALL/WINTER 2015-16 CAMPAIGN

  The Sting, Netherlands / Shot/filmed in Budapest and in the Hungarian countryside

  The Sting is a Dutch fashion house holding exclusive collections for men and women. The hippie-inspired Fall 2015 campaign and the exclusive party themed Winter 2015-16 Party campaign resulted in the production of both a photo and a video campaign running in the windows of the chain’s huge stores on in Amsterdam’s city center, Picadilly Circus/Regent street, London, and other locations in the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belgium and Germany.

  HOW WE HELPED We arranged local production crew, a wide variety of public and private locations, transport, etc.

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  “ON THE RUN” PILOT

  Zodiak Nederland , Netherlands/ Filmed in Budapest

  A simple task: go from point A to point B. 48 kilometers in 48 hours. Each episode the target is dropped at an unknown location. The only information the player gets is an envelope with a map, the final destination and a budget of € 1,000. The target can reach the endpoint rather than the two hunters who are after him? We tried in Budapest.

  HOW WE HELPED We arranged local production crew, location permits, actors, costumes, etc.

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  NPO2 / GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM

  Tuvalu Media, Netherlands / Filmed in Budapest and the Hungarian-Serbian border

  This controversial reality show is making waves in the Netherlands and Belgium and is already a hit in Australia, where the format comes from.

  The show follows six Dutch participants who all think there are too many foreigners in the Netherlands, being taken on a journey towards Irak - in reverse to that which refugees have taken to reach the Netherlands - in the scariest conditions.

  HOW WE HELPED We arranged accommodation for participants, production personnel and crew, as well as locations and a deal with the Hungarian Border Police to film right at the border. We also arranged transport and drivers transporting the participants, production personnel and crew throughout Hungary and all the way to Greece.

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  VTM / TRAVEL TIPS

  TV Bastards, Belgium / Filmed in Budapest

  TV show about tourist traps to avoid in the world’s major cities.

  HOW WE HELPED We did a thorough research of the criminal networks behind Budapest’s tourist scams, how they function, how best to capture them in action. We worked creatively with the producers to plan the shoot, find locations and get permits for them, find interviewees willing to speak out about criminal activities and arrange interview locations, arrange transport for the presenter, production personnel and crew.

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  MAGNUM PHOTOS / NATIONALISM RENAISSANCE

  Photos taken in Budapest and the Hungarian-Romanian border area / Peter Bauza photography, Germany/Brazil

  Photo project about Hungary’s extreme nationalist/skinhead movements.

  HOW WE HELPED We researched Hungary’s most violent nationalist movements, their leaders and their followers and worked creatively with the photographer to develop his photo story. From the shadiest parts of Budapest to the poorest countryside, at the border with Romania, through an abandoned factory or the largest yearly meeting of extreme nationalist groups, we guided the photographer through a Hungary that even Hungarians barely know. We arranged interviews with neo-Nazi leaders, transport, driver and location permits.

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  RED ROOFS

  Rooftop Films, UK / Filmed in Budapest and the Balaton Lake region

  The documentary 'Red Roofs' is about Czechoslovakian, Polish and Hungarian cinema from 1950 till 1990. Consisting of interviews with legendary filmmakers and shots from films typical for this era, accompanied by new footage of places and trademarks significant of these four countries - with a modern hint.

  HOW WE HELPED We arranged 40 interviews with Hungary’s legendary film directors, cinematographers and actors/actresses of the Communist era. We arranged locations in Budapest and in the countryside and guaranteed translation, transport and continuous creative input.

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  LE MONDE / ANTI-ROMA POGROMS IN HUNGARY

  Le Monde, France / Interviews in Budapest and the village of Tatárszentgyörgy

  The article for France’s most prestigious daily is about the series of murders of Roma in Hungary by a group of neo-Nazis.

  HOW WE HELPED We offered advice on the content and arranged interviews with the families of the victims. We guaranteed translation, arranged transport and continuous constructive input on the subject matter.

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  MUNDI ROMANI – THE WORLD THROUGH ROMA EYES / 2007-2011

  A Romedia Foundation and Duna TV Production

  Shot in Roma communities in more than twenty countries across the world, from India to the US, through Russia, the Balkans, Spain or Israel, the series gives a voice to a voiceless minority and invites viewers to discover a world unknown to most.

  The series won a UNESCO Prize in 2010 and had episodes nominated at the Monte Carlo TV Festival (2008), the FIPA (2009) and the CIVIS Prize (2009).

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  UPROOTED / 2011

  A Romedia Foundation production

  Going back and forth between Germany and Kosovo, Uprooted brings the voice of Roma youths into the debate on immigration in Europe.

  In October 2010, Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed". From the perspective of children like Anita, Sedat and Nasmija, born and raised in Germany by parents who had fled Kosovo in the 1990s, the statement makes no sense. For them, there is no question: they are German.

  UPROOTED was nominated in the Short Film category at the 8th Aljazeera Documentary Film Festival in 2012.

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  SOUL EXODUS / 2015

  A FILMSTREET production / Filmed in Canada, USA, Romania, Moldova, Hungary

  Feature length documentary that follows five musicians on their journey to discover the roots of klezmer music.