The Necromancer
2011
No Money for the HFW
Due to the blocked finances of the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary in 2010 and based on the figures which can be seen in the Hungarian state budget plans for 2011 the organization announced that „it doesn’t have the financial possibilities to organize the Hungarian Film Week” (http://www.hungarianfilmweek.com/frontpage/News/). However with regard to the fact that next spring Hungary will have the presidency of the European Union and considering the importance of presenting to the public the productions made with public funding MMK asks the Ministry of National Resources to insure the necessary finances to organize the event.
This situation is serious because the HFW is the biggest film festival in Hungary and it is the main place for the presentation to the public of the Hungarian films produced in the previous year. The announcement comes as a surprise also due to the fact that – as we have written previously – the new management planned substantial changes by making HFW international.
