Program profile 02 · Creative production

Make a film that could only happen here.

A four-week production lab scheduled around your academic calendar, where Budapest becomes location, material and creative prompt—and every team completes an original short.

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Year-round4-week core format

45+ hoursGuided learning

1 original shortPer creative team

Students building a frame-by-frame animation

A student using a camera during a field exercise

Story · image · sound · place

Any disciplineNo prior experienceFilmAnimationCreative collaboration

One shared production environment

Different forms. One creative language.

Students learn story, image, sound and production together before choosing the form that best serves their idea: live action, documentary, stop motion, mixed media—or a deliberate hybrid. No prior filmmaking or animation experience is required.

Final outcome

From first observation to a curated Budapest screening.

Each small crew completes a portfolio-ready short supported by a concise treatment, visual research and a documented production process.

The four-week arc

Make, test, rethink, finish.

01 / Read the city
Find the story
Visual research, location scouting, story development and Hungarian moving-image contexts.
02 / Test the form
Build the language
Rapid exercises in directing, camera, sound, stop motion, mixed media and production design.
03 / Production
Make the work
Small-crew production, dailies, practical problem-solving and close creative mentoring.
04 / Post & show
Shape the film
Editing, sound, feedback, final delivery and a shared screening in Budapest.

Creative production network

Professional practice, expanded around the projects.

A core creative lead, joined by the specialists each cohort needs.

The lab's creative direction draws on the work and professional network of Milán Kopasz, a MOME Animation MA graduate whose independent and commissioned portfolio spans animation, live action, stop motion, compositing and hybrid production.

Guest filmmakers and craftspeople are selected around the work in development, extending the teaching team into cinematography, sound, production design, animation and post-production when needed.

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Inside the workshop