Script Consultation & Polishing

Here is how this works in practice. Script consultation in Hungary connects writers and producers to a custom that holds two Best Foreign Language Oscars (István Szabó's Mephisto 1981, László Nemes's Son of Saul 2015), two Berlin Golden Bears (Ildikó Enyedi's On Body and Soul 2017, Béla Tarr's Werckmeister and Sátántangó lineage), and a Venice Best Actress (Kornél Mundruczó's Pieces of a Woman 2020).

Here is the short of it. Our consultants work bilingually in English and Hungarian, with reading staff trained through SZFE (Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem. University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, founded 1865) and MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) screenwriting programs. We coverage-pass and developmental-note feature scripts, episodic pilots, and short-form work across drama, genre, documentary. Plus animation, drawing literary references from Sándor Márai, Imre Kertész (Nobel Prize in Literature 2002), Magda Szabó, Péter Nádas. Plus László Krasznahorkai (Tarr's longtime collaborator) where projects engage Hungarian source material or period.

Here is the breakdown. For producers building toward Hungarian co-production status or domestic funding, we run NFI (Nemzeti Filmintézet — National Film Institute) screenplay grant-eligibility asks. Script-stage support, production-stage application, and the Hungarian-spend qualification math that interacts with the 30% rebates. For global writers and showrunners staffing Budapest-based pilots, we give cultural-fidelity readers covering Hungarian dialogue authenticity, period accuracy (Habsburg-era, interwar, Stalinist 1950s, 1956 Revolution, late-socialist Kádár era, post-1989 transition), and reference checks against Magyar Filmszövetség (Hungarian Filmmakers Association) archives. Pitch prep for Cannes Marché du Film, Berlinale EFM, Karlovy Differ East of the West.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Plus the NFI co-production market gets one-page sales-doc development, look-book curation drawing on Mátyás Erdély and Marcell Rév cinematography references, and tonal-match-up decks anchored on Hungarian and global precedents. Turnaround is forty-eight to seventy-two hours for feature coverage, three to five days for developmental passes with revision-tracked rewrites.