HISTORY

Tamas Liszka joined the entertainment group Szimpla in 2003, and opened the company's first cinema. SzimplaFilm was founded as a standalone firm specifically dealing with film production and distribution. Apart from dozens of arthouse movie releases, the company runs Anilogue, the largest annual animation festival of Hungary and Austria, and several cross-cultural projects like the Estonian Week and the Hungarian animation stand in France and Japan.

The SzimplaFilm team worked as an international licensing agency of several animated films, including Aron Gauder’s Annecy and Ottawa winning ‘District’, and Geza M. Toth’s ‘Maestro’ which was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2007.

Szimplafilm’s first own production, ‘Switch Off’ was in competition at the Holland Animation Festival; the most recent animated short, ‘Reportrait’ is currently running in theaters. The company continues to work on the production of several international projects including a feature length stereoscopic animation ‘Egil: The Last Pagan’ with Michael Madsen, and a Serbian war drama, ‘Strange Forest’.