Company profile 2010

Mythberg Films is a feature- and television film-production company based in Budapest, Hungary. Besides its in-house developed majority films, the company very much focuses on minority international co-productions as well.
By having a well-developed company structure for more than a decade Mythberg has successfully produced or was involved in more than 12 cinema and tv movies in the past.
Only in the last two years the company has produced or co-produced five films with the total budget of over 11m €. All projects were finalized on a successful legal and financial basis, using the most benefit of the Hungarian tax-rebate system (over 1m€ in total) and other local and international financing sources.
Over its more than a decade existence, Mythberg Films became a trustable and reliable company known for its experienced and friendly team, for its creative involvement in the projects and most importantly for its professional production management with legal and financial advisors and partners whose assistance enabled the company to handle productions in the most cost-effective manner and solve different matters for the benefit of partners and financiers.

PROJECTS IN PRE-PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

• ‘The Carers’ a feature film project by János Edelényi (Prima primavera), based on the script by Gilbert Adair, a production by Vita Nova film (UK) and Mythberg Films. Sir Michael a legendary actor is terminally ill and needs someone to take care of him, which he is not use to at all. The relationship with his ‘carer’ forms a friendship at the end by helping each other to fulfill their dreams.
• A new television film is in pre-production by György Molnár, based on the short novel by Pál Békés, titled: “Csikágó” (a nickname of a Budapest district).
• an international feature titled “Ikaros” by young debuting director, Árpád Bogdán, about a young gipsy boy who leaves his village in the East of Hungary to live in the city of Budapest than trying to search for a decent life in America. But it does not help: he is the person who is always “in a wrong place at the wrong time’.
• a film titled “Amrita” is about the short but very intensive life of painter Amrita Sher-Gil, a Hungarian born (1913) half Indian woman who became India’s first contemporary artist after she died in 1944. A possible French-UK-Indian-Hungarian co-production
• “The Green Dragon Football Club” is a pure comedy, a possible Chinese-European co-production based on the company’s recent movie “Children of the Green Dragon”. The main character Wu is returning to China and wants to fulfill his dream of creating his Chinese football (soccer) team…
• “The four rascals” is an adventure movie taking place in the 16th century in the north part of the disrupted Hungarian Kingdom. A gang of robbers are permanently attacking villagers when they decide to call superannuated soldiers from the Turkish war to help them to defend themselves and a secret treasure. The old soldiers of different origins (German, Polish, Turkish, Hungarian) decide to go for their possible reward and battle the gang…

PROJECTS IN PRODUCTION

• Mythberg’s new in-house developed comedy-drama feature titled “Children of the Green Dragon”  and directed by Bence Miklauzic is at present in post-production phase. A story involving a Chinese warehouse-keeper and a Hungarian real-estate agent, is a high quality ‘feel-good’ movie in Hungarian and Mandarin language.
• Maybe in an other life…’ , by Elisabeth Sharang, an Austrian-Hungarian-German co-production (EPO-film Vienna, Mythberg, Filmline Munich) based on real life events at the end of the second world war.
• In 2008/09/10 the Serbian black comedy titled “Mamarosh” written and directed by Momcilo Mrdakovic is being produced by Corazon International, Hamburg, Paprika Film, Belgrade and Mythberg Films. The film is backed by Wild Bunch as an international sales agent and investor. At present the film is shot in New York.
• The “Essential Killing” by Jerzy Skolimowski is also in post-production phase presently, starring Vincent Gallo, a Polish (Skopia Film) Irish (Element Pictures) Norway (Cylinder Productions) and Mythberg Films co-production, presented by Jeremy Thomas, Hanway Films.

COMPLETED FILMS

• This year’s (2010) production was the opening film of the 41st Hungarian Film Week titled “So much for Justice” (EPO-film Vienna, Pleasnar Film, Warsaw) and directed by one of Hungary’s most renowned directors, Miklós Jancsó.
• In 2009-10 Mythberg Films produced a film titled “Kameramörder”, directed by Robert Adrian Pejo, and prepared in coproduction with the Austrian LOTUS Film and the Swiss Cobra Film and won an ex-aequo ‘Best Director’s prize at the 41st Hungarian Film Week.
• In 2006/07 Mythberg Films produced a television film by György Molnár, “Tavasz, Nyár, Ősz” (Spring, Summer, Autumn) in co-production with the Hungarian Television. In the same years the company was also involved in a documentary directed by Barbara Puskás from EPO-film, titled “Hallo”, about the life of Tivadar Puskás, the inventor of the telephone center.
• In 2004 an Austrian-Hungarian-Polish co-production was completed with the contribution of the Austrian EPO-Film and the Polish Apple Film directed by Michael Kreihsl, titled “My Father, my wife, my lover….” (Received the main prize at Biarritz International Television Film Festival) and the Romy Award.
• In 2003 Mythberg Films produced a new Péter Gothár’s feature the “Hungarian Beauty”, that won the Grand Prix of the Jury at the 34th Hungarian Film Week.
• In 2001 Mythberg Films produced another Péter Gothár film titled “Passport”, in co-production with Duna-Television. ‘Passport’ was selected to more than 50 festivals, won three major awards and was nominated for two European Film Academy awards (Best Director 2001, Best Cinematographer 2001).
• In 2000 Mythberg Films produced a television film titled “A leghidegebb éjszaka” (The Coldest Night)  for the Hungarian Television, as a Christmas prime time tv-film on MTV Channel 2.

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