Services for Czech Producers
During the past fifteen years, due to a steady flow of productions from abroad, Barrandov Studios has been perceived primarily as a service provider for American, British, French, and German filmmakers. Barrandov, however, also plays a significant role in the Czech film industry.
The production of Czech films at Barrandov has undergone significant historical development, including several sudden and violent upheavals. It started as the “Dream Factory” of the Czechoslovak First Republic survived the extremely difficult period of German occupation, then became a nationalized, socialist institution, rolling out up to forty films a year. Together with the social changes that took place after 1989, things at Barrandov Studios changed as well.
Although state subsidies are no longer directed at the film industry and the studios were privatized, Barrandov remains the mecca of Czech filmmaking. Czech filmmakers have access not only to the stages, but also to all of the other services offered by the studios, starting with the Costumes and Props and Set Construction, including tasks performed by the Film laboratories, and ranging up through Sound postproduction. Recently Barrandov participated in the production of such films as Maj / May (F. A. Brabec), Bathory (Juraj Jakubisko), Karamazovi / The Karamozovs (Petr Zelenka), Venkovsky ucitel / A Country Teacher (Bohdan Slama), Bobule / Grapes (Tomas Barina), Tajnosti / Little Girl Blue (Alice Nellis) nebo Vratne lahve / Empties (Jan Sverak). A full list is available here.
The Barrandov Studios Czech Film Division has direct ties to all of the services offered. Our goal is to simplify the work of the executive producer (accepting all orders at one location, combined billing at agreed-upon intervals, etc.). At the same time, we offer more advantageous pricing in the form of “packages” when several services are ordered simultaneously.
We approach each Czech project individually and remain faithful to tradition – Barrandov’s gates are always open to Czech filmmakers.
Barrandov Studios is a member of the Audiovisual Producers’ Association (APA).