National Film Office

2007. June • 29.

The National Film Office has been operating since the beginning of April 2004 based on the 2004/II annual act on motion picture. The most significant responsibility of the office is to register participants, organizations and institutions in the Hungarian film industry, as well as all the motion pictures produced, distributed (in VHS or DVD form) and screened in movie theatres in the country. Enterprises and companies producing motion pictures or film distributors requesting state provisions can only acquire it in case they are in possession of the registration assessment from the Film Office. The Film Office, as also stated in the Film Act, oversees the legitimacy of tax exemptions after private funds invested in Hungarian film productions. In addition, it is the Film Office that operates the Rating Committee and the Film Profession Committee. The Rating Committee puts all films that are for movie distribution or VHS and DVD publishing into five different categories in order to protect the under aged children and also for the notification of parents and schools. The Film Profession Committee decides upon the ‘art’ classification of movies to be distributed. The motion picture associations or films are registered in the databank of the Film Office from the 2nd half of 2004.

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