Production services · Budapest · Hungary
Production company in Budapest
Family Film is a production company in Budapest providing full production services across Hungary, led by Anna Sesztakova, partner, executive producer, head of hungarian office. International agencies, brands and production houses hire us as their local partner: you keep the director, the DOP and the creative, and we deliver everything it takes to put the camera on set — including the cash-rebate filing.
Family Film is a production company in Budapest providing full production services across Hungary, where our line producers run international features, television series, documentaries and short films. (Hungary's incentive covers feature, episodic, documentary and short-film formats; it does not cover commercials; for commercial rebates we point producers to Serbia & Montenegro.)
Budapest, Hungary
Anna Sesztakova
Partner · Executive Producer · Head of Hungarian Office
Anna has led the Budapest office since early 2016, with over a decade of production experience in Hungary. She’s produced or executive produced 50+ international campaigns for brands including Longines, OPPO, Samsung, Hyundai and Mastercard, plus six feature and long-form projects — among them Netflix’s action feature Jewel Thief and a 2025 Great American Family Christmas romcom.
Dereglye utca 5/B, Budapest 1036
Shooting in Hungary
- Cash rebate
- Up to 37.5%
- Eligible formats
- Feature, TV, doc & short film
- Minimum qualifying spend
- No stated minimum
- Rebate cap
- No stated cap
- Crew day rates
- 40–55% of UK equivalents
- Studios & stages
- Mafilm, the country's largest studio complex
- Working languages
- English, Hungarian
What the Budapest office handles
The full below-the-line package, under one contract with one local production entity.
Line Producing & Production Management
End-to-end production management from pre-production through wrap: budgeting, scheduling, crew hiring, vendor management and on-set oversight by local line producers in each country.
Location Scouting & Permits
Extensive location library across Romania, Hungary and Serbia & Montenegro plus partner companies in Georgia and Azerbaijan, with all permits, local authority liaison and location agreements handled in-house.
Local Crew & Equipment
Deep local crew networks across all departments and access to professional equipment houses and stages in each country.
Casting & Talent
Local casting for principal and supporting talent, background artists and specialist performers, with international talent travel coordination.
Tax Incentive Management
Complete incentive process management: cultural qualification test, production registration, eligible expenditure tracking and subsidy filing for up to 37.5% cash rebate in Romania, Hungary and Serbia & Montenegro.
Post-Production Coordination
Coordination with local post houses for dailies, colour, VFX and sound at competitive local rates with European production values.
Production company, production house or fixer?
- Production house / production company
- Originates and produces its own content. Family Film is a production company in this sense — it produces — but it works for the agencies, brands and production houses that own the creative rather than competing with them for it.
- Production service company
- The local partner an international production hires to execute a shoot in Hungary: line producing, crew, locations, permits, equipment, casting, logistics and the rebate filing. That is what the Budapest office does, and all 251 campaigns in the archive are credited as full-service production.
- Fixer
- An individual arranging access on the ground for a small documentary, news or stills crew. If you need one person to open doors for a two-person unit, a fixer is the right hire — not a service company.
Recent work shot in Hungary
Shooting in Budapest?
Send the brief to Anna and you will have feasibility, a recommended country and a first-look budget shape within 24 hours.
Brief Anna in Budapest