budapest Nov 2014

PPM Film Production is a premium, full service film production company based in Budapest. For over 20 years, PPM has been sought after by clients looking to take advantage of the wealth of atmosphere, beauty, history and technical expertise on offer when shooting in Hungary.

PPM has proven itself time and again with dynamic solutions in creating exciting television advertising for some of the world’s most recognisable brands and companies.

Budapest has long been a world-class location for TV advertising and feature film production. The city can do ‘bright’ with its ornate and expansive bridges, winding Danube views and grandiose boulevards; but it can also do ‘edgy’ with sooty Gothic tenements, bullet-pocked facades and brooding streets.

With its value for money, Budapest has already stood-in for cities like Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Moscow and Berlin. Local facilities include a branch of the internationally renowned Raleigh Studios, now Central and Eastern Europe’s best-equipped production studio.

Tight scheduling and reasonable budgeting, as well as an extensive professional network, gives filmreaktor a great rapport with crew and equipment owners. All this happens in Hungary, mainly in Budapest’s outstanding locations with its highly professional crews and economic prices.

The company has completed a range of work for clients such as Oral B, Pond’s and Intuit and is also very proud of recent car commercials for Toyota and Subaru.

Smalls’ Film Ltd. is a service production company focusing mainly on commercials. It was founded by Petra Tarnai (producer) and Iván Erős (production manager) in January 2007.

Before founding Smalls’ Film, Petra was a producer in Hungary with more than 10 years of experience. Iván worked as a location manager for international features (I Spy, Underworld, Munich, etc.) and also as a freelancer production manager in service production companies.

Thanks to successful productions over the last few years, (Raiffeisen Bank, Erste Bank, T-Home, T-Mobile, Mol, Djuice, Eni-Tigáz, Danone, Media Markt, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Molson Coors, Sanofi, Sara Lee, Korean Air), Smalls’ Film now works with clients (most of them recurrent) for whom quality work and a real value/price ratio are the most important features.

Flashback Company, founded in 1996, is a Budapest-based photo production company, offering photo and video production along with rental studio services.

The company initially began working for magazines and advertisement agencies in the fields of advertising, interior and still image photography. Later, due to the intention of its founders, the studio was relocated to a historic industrial building, and gained a leading role in the market of studio services with its significant rental equipment and professional services.

Adapting to the changing trends in photography (meaning digitalisation and post-production), the studio currently facilitates a professional post-production department, whilst giving an overall, full-range service in logistics and the production of various visual projects, representing the full spectrum of the creative industry.

The PhotoPro production company organises and produces advertising, fashion and catalogue photo shoots at the highest professional level, offering full production services including location scouting, casting and lighting equipment for photography, film, music videos and ad spots.

Over recent years, the company has handled a number of international productions with many satisfied clients from as far a-field as Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Göteborg, Hamburg and Berlin. Clients include T-com, Procter and Gamble, Allianz and Coke.

Budapest native Zoltan Tombor picked up his father's Leica as a child and is yet to put it down. With an eye trained towards the timeless vision of Avedon and Penn, Zoltan draws from the world around him to inform his work - light and shadow, people and their words - almost anything can spur his creativity.

There is a timeless yet human quality to Zoltan's work, simultaneously intimate yet always elevated. Clients such as Phillip Lim, Yigal Azrouel, Club Monaco, Net-a-Porter, L'Oréal and La Perla agree; calling upon Zoltan to execute their timeless campaigns and press images.

Editorially, Zoltan finds an outlet for his elegant yet creative art and has been on assignment for the London Sunday Telegraph, Elle, Glamour and Vogue Pelle.

As one of the most sought-after Hungarian still life and interior photographers, Csaba Barbay has gained a strong reputation amongst international design magazines and publications including Marie Claire India and Elle Decor Russia.

Csaba has worked with hundreds of prestigious Hungarian and international clients, including DDB, McCann Erickson and Leo Burnett, along with magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle and Elle Decor Hungary.

Csaba is the co-founder and director of leading Hungarian photo studio and equipment rental company, Flashback Photo Studio. Using the latest digital tools, he combines international trends with classic aesthetic standards.

Csaba is represented by Flashback Photo Studio.

A couple in both their private and professional lives, Éva Papp and Zoltán Schneider have been working together for a number of years. Their photos focus on humanity, showing sensuality and reflecting the female aspect. They work mostly in the fields of editorial, portraiture and fashion.

The team works for the Hungarian editions of magazines including Elle, Marie Claire, InStyle, EVA, H.O.M.E, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Joy, Shape, AnyWay, Volvo and Daalarna Couture.

"After graduating from high school I moved to Budapest where I started working as a photographic assistant for Peter Zaray at Zoom Photo Studio. After finishing Prater Photography School I worked with various design and interior magazines. Since 1998, I've been a freelance photographer and in 2011 I founded Flashback Photo Studio along with a few colleagues and friends. The studio has since gained a leading role in the Hungarian commercial photography scene.

I have worked with Young & Rubicam, Saatchi & Saatchi, Acg-Hey, Sylva, Nuance Agency, Elle Decor, Marie Claire, H.O.M.E., Design Room, Audi, Decanter, Instyle, Cosmopolitan, Falco Soprom, Omorovicza, Gapetto, Thales Nano and other companies."

Csaba is represented by Flashback Photo Studio.

Viktor Galos has been working as an advertising photographer for over 20 years,
shooting for leading advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett, McCann Erickson, Lowe-GGK DDB and Havas Worldwide.

His clients include Electrolux (exclusively), Coca-Cola, Heineken, Citroen Hungary, Volvo and Absolut Vodka.

Csaba Jobbagy has been working as an advertising photographer for ten years, shooting for leading international advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett, DDB, Saatchi&Saatchi, Grey and Publicis. His clients include Ikea, Allianz Bank, Unicredit Bank, Vodafone, T-mobile, Telenor, Djuice, Red Bull, and many more.

Csaba has won several awards including a Cannes Lion, NY Advertising Festival, Cresta Awards, Epica Awards and the Hungarian Golden Blade. He also shoots fashion and continues to work on his personal project documenting beach behaviour using mainly old plastic cameras.

Visit his website for his advertising work and more information.

András is a Budapest based photographer/cinematographer but is an all-rounder when it comes to locations around Europe. From an early age he knew his strength lay in portrait photography, however advertising, corporate and private events and lifestyle photos are also widely present in his portfolio.

His clients range from BASF, AMC Networks International and AXN Central Europe to British Embassies around the CEE region, Barbara Palvin and Mika Hakkinen.

“My work is my passion, my camera is my eye towards the world. I have met and photographed the most amazing people over the past decade for which I am truly grateful."

Sandor Benkö, visual artist and photographer resides in Hungary since 1989 after moving back from Germany, where he emigrated with his family as a refugee of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and where he graduated at the Art Academy of Mainz Germany in 1984.

Since then he has worked successfully as an international photographer for well-known fashion brands like Triumph, Tom Tailor, and for car brands like Audi. In addition to his fashion, commercial and art photography, he also works as a teacher of photography and as a freelance photo journalist for various magazines and publications. 

Beton studios is the only professional photo studio in Hungary with a dedicated building for photography. With supporting facilities like make-up rooms, shower, dressing rooms for both studios, lounge areas, a closed car park and kitchen, the company offers the ideal working environment for any kind of photo or video production. Studio 1 is a large 200 m² facility (20x10x5) with solid infinity wall - suitable for large scale shoots - and a 10m wide greenbox.

Beton studios offers professional photographic equipment for rent, including Broncolor power packs and strobe heads, Hasselblad cameras with full lens lines, Hasselblad and PhaseOne digital backs.

Established and found by Annelise Arieli in 2001, Face Model Management has become one of the leading modeling agencies in Hungary. FACE specialises in representation and personal management of Hungarian models, with a proven track record of discovering and introducing models to the local and international scene.

FACE is affiliated with global agencies and maintains strong work ties with well known agencies around the world. Face Model Management is a small boutique agency featuring tops models and is continuously searching for new faces.