 Liza BUDAPEST: Károly Ujj Mészáros's first feature, Liza, the Fox Fairy/Liza, a rókatündér, János Szász's The Notebook/A nagy füzet and Gyula Nemes's Zero received a total amount of 1,283,470 Euro (400 M HUF) as production grants from the Hungarian National Film Fund ( www.filmalap.hu). All three of them are international co-productions.
 The Nothebook by János Szász
 Nemes Gyula
Zero received 320,867 Euro (100 M HUF). It is produced by Gábor Dettre and the Hungarian company Playtime together with The Czech Endorfilm (www.endorfilm.cz) and the German 42film (www.42film.de). The project is also supported by Czech Film Fund and Germany's Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (www.mdm-online.de), and it was developed with the support of EU's MEDIA Program. It was selected in themain workshops and co-production platforms in the region (CineLink, Connecting Cottbus, éQuinoxe Germany). After receiving the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary (www.kviff.com) in 2008 for his first film, Lost World, Gyula Nemes signs a provocative and entertaining film about globalization telling the desperate story of a bee-keeper who tries to save his bees.
Since its first decision (October 2011), the Hungarian National Film Fund has granted development support to projects by Bence Miklauzic (Car Park), Kornél Mundruczó (The Flying Man), Márk Bodzsár (Godly Shift), György Pálfi (Toldi), Csaba Fazekas (Swing), Ádám Császi (A Land of Storms)and Café Film's Bexy itt járt. The Fund will be the main partner of the Hungarian Film Critics' Prizes, established in 1962 as a prestigious national film award ceremony whose previous winners include Hajdu's Bibliotheque Pascal (2011), Mundruczó's Delta (2009), Bollók's Iska's Journey (2008), Fliegauf's Dealer (2005) and Pálfi's Hukkle (2003).
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