Hungary's new film studio is built in Fót

The National Film Institute's new studio complex in Fót was officially opened this morning. The comprehensive development began in 2020 and was implemented as a priority state investment by Fejér-B.Á.L. Zrt and MTI. rel="noopener">Fejér-B.Á.L. Zrt and Market Építő Zrt. . As a subcontractor, the member companies and partners of KÉSZ Csoport member companies and partners, including KÉSZ Metaltech Kft., KÉSZ Ipari Gyártó Kft. and bim.GROUP Kft. also worked on the project. The work several times about the work.

The NFI Studio, which has been in operation since the 1980s, has been expanded with four new studios totalling 10,000 square metres, 20,000 square metres of service space and 135,000 square metres of green space. The development, which has increased the capacity of the Fót base fivefold, also includes one of the largest film studios in Hungary, with 5,000 square metres of floor space and 18-metre ceilings. Two of the four new studios can be connected to each other and can serve the needs of large-scale productions in parallel.

New chapters

A new film studio will open new chapters in the enrichment of Hungarian and universal film history, said Csaba Káel, government commissioner for the development of the Hungarian film industry at the megynito on Thursday.

He said that the Hungarian film industry's last state investment of similar significance was in 1936 in Róna Street, which was then one of the largest and most modern studios in Central Europe, just like the newly completed complex in Fót.

"The significance of the four years from design to construction will be truly experienced by the generations that follow us," added Csaba Káel.

"Film production is in the blood of Hungarians"

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also spoke at the ceremony. Film is both an art and an industry: art is free, but the state is needed to develop the film industry, the Prime Minister said, and stressed that filmmaking is in the blood of Hungarians, who were present at the first silent films and the birth of Hollywood.