The movie Cashflow got the green light for summer

Finally, this summer Balázs Juszt can start shooting his very first movie, Cashflow.

We interviewed the young London Royal Holloway and American UCLA film graduate about his soon-to-be shot action-comedy.

By early July, if everything goes as planned, they can start shooting Cashflow, which enjoys a 360million HUF budget from financers including RTL Club and Sándor Demján yet received no government support. Most of the 31-day shoot is going to take place in Budapest but there is one countryside location at Inárcs, as well.

The project, that has been in the works for over two and a half years now, also incorporates a few non-fictional elements - explained the director-producer to us who also happens to be credited as the screenplay writer for Cashflow.

In a nutshell, the plot evolves around an artwork treasure heist. However, when asked what the film is really about, Balázs Juszt- while remembering those conversations with István Szabó and Pál Sándor when he was pitching his idea for the movie- said it is basically about Destiny. And what comes out of all these? No matter how many dead-end missions he endures, the hero just has to surrender to his Destiny and see the path all the way through that the gods have chosen for him to complete.

The Cashflow project has been referred to as the Hungarian Pulp Fiction -and not only once! Juszt thinks that for a film maker of his caliber this is an extreme honour, however, he would not want to get people’s hopes high up or use false pretences. “Everybody should judge the end result for themselves”. Apart from Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie, Juszt also names great artists’ masterpieces like George Roy Hill’s classic, The Sting among his influences.

The new hungarian action-comedy?

Perferct Preparation is an absolute priority for the young film maker, and as we pointed out before, the project has been under development and preparation for two and a half years now. The Behind-the-Scenes footage, now available online, was finished and uploaded last year. This was the time when most of those live and reading rehearsals took place that further development of the project was based on.

Having a flawlessly prepared project always comes first. Only then can we talk about developing the visual goal itself that is the key to a successful action movie- admits Juszt. Achieving these visual goals is now orchestrated by Gergő Koós at the shop of SuperSonic Film. So far the director has never been able to present a challenge to his eager VFX-team that they could not succeed in.

Previous reports have already revealed that Cashflow also features actress Bai Ling whom we could catch in movies like The Crow, Wild Wild West and also in the third sequel to the most famous French establishment, the franchise of Taxi. The actress of somewhat ambivalent reputation plays a former Chinese beauty-queen from whom a Hungarian gang snatches some Russian art treasures of extraordinary value- an event that ultimately triggers a course of ever-tangling chain of difficulties.

Beside the Chinese actress, the local young forces and established talents of the Hungarian film industry present themselves including Zoltán Miller, Ferenc Hujber, Csaba Pindroch, Gyula Bodrogi, Kálmán Varjú, Győző Szabó, Áprád Zsolt Mészáros, András Faragó, Csaba Zöld, Csaba Gieler and Mari Kiss.

We asked Balázs Juszt about his studies and film experiences as well. After graduating with a B.S. in Economics from the earlier mentioned London Royal Holloway he joined the Los Angeles based film academy and enrolled the Producers Program at UCLA. The ‘name-dropping’ list of his teachers included Roger Mirnbaum, Director of Spyglass Entertainment, and Terry Press, the Marketing Manager of DreamWorks for example. His head teacher at the program was Cathy Schulman, the producer of the 2004 movie hit, Crash.

One of the most memorable experiences for Juszt in Los Angeles was when they had to create (in groups of 5-6) about 5 different versions from one single movie trailer. At the end, using these variations, the professionals were the ones who shaped the final cut. This process was called the “frankeinsteinization” and this was exactly what pinpointed all the good and less fortunate choices that the teams had made in the course of their work.

Juszt has already participated as aid in making several full-feature movies like Relatives or Lora. But now his time has finally come to start shooting his very own and very first big motion picture, Cashflow this summer.