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Within a short time, the studio’s works became regular and award-winning participants at prestigious festivals – including Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam, Warsaw, Toronto, Sundance, and Chicago. His producing activity spans the entire spectrum of filmmaking: he has produced short films, documentaries, animated and experimental works, and, since 2003, feature films as well. Over the course of his career so far, he has participated as producer or co-producer in the creation of 45 feature films, 150 short films, 90 documentaries, and 15 animated films. His international successes include Bálint Kenyeres’s Before Dawn (2005, European Film Academy Best Short Film Award), Bence Fliegauf’s Milky Way (2008, Golden Leopard, Locarno), Bence Fliegauf’s Just the Wind (2012, Silver Bear, Berlinale), and Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul (2017, Golden Bear, Berlinale; 2018, Oscar shortlist). Since 2016, as a producer at FocusFox Studio, he has supported the production of new feature films primarily by young filmmakers. Since May 2023, he has served as president of the Association of Hungarian Filmmakers. In 2025, with the relaunch of the Hungarian Film Week, he acts as its director, working for the professional and creative renewal of the event. He is also the chief organiser of the Film Industry Awards (Filmes Szakmai Díjak), presented for the first time in 2026.

Her true film career as a producer began with the 2000 production Glass Tiger, which later grew into a trilogy. Together with her husband, Gábor Kovács, she has been behind numerous films, including Black Brush, Hunky Blues, White Palms, My Wife’s Romance, Bibliothèque Pascal, Mirage, Adventurers, To the Best of My Knowledge, One Day, and Frozen Eyes. She has also participated as a co-producer in several films, most recently Fekete pont. She has twice been listed among the 50 most influential women in Hungary by Forbes Magazine. In 2012, she received the Balázs Béla Award in recognition of her work.

He studied Philosophy and Film Theory at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University, Intermedia at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, and at the Doctoral School of the University of Theatre and Film Arts. He is the founder of the Anilogue International Animation Festival, Budapest’s longest-running international film festival, and teaches at the Animation and Media Design Department of Budapest Metropolitan University.

Between 1994 and 2002, he worked as a senior executive at a leading independent local pension fund and a major insurance brokerage firm. Throughout this period, Tamás remained closely connected to the entertainment industry, providing financial consultancy services to various production companies. In 2002, Tamás returned fully to the film sector as the majority owner and managing director of Abacus. He gained unique experience through his significant role in shaping the new Hungarian film funding system. Drawing on the expertise he has accumulated over the years, Abacus has focused – alongside its advisory activities – on providing full accounting services and other administrative solutions for both domestic and international film productions shooting in Hungary. Tamás has also been a key member of the advisory team to the Hungarian Government, successfully contributing to the extension of EU approval for the national film support scheme. In addition to these activities, in recent years he has supported the creation of several Hungarian and international co-productions as a co-producer or executive producer.

He first entered the film world in Hungary by using his English skills, later becoming involved in professional work at Mafilm International Studio (Escape to Victory, Children's War, For Those I Loved, The Phantom of the Opera). Later, he joined Novofilm, founded by Pál Sándor, the first Hungarian film production company. In the 1990s, he co-founded Filmpartners Ltd. with Iván Kapitány and Buda Gulyás. He later continued independently and became a key figure in the Hungarian advertising film market. This period also marked the beginning of his feature-film career: Glass Tiger, Black Brush, Hunky Blues, White Palms, My Wife’s Romance, Bibliothèque Pascal, Adventurers, To the Best of My Knowledge, Frozen Eyes, One Day, among others. He is a Balázs Béla Award-winning Hungarian film producer.