Written by Shona Smith on May 27, 2021. Posted in General Interest

New Post Facility opens in Belgrade

247HUB is a premium post-production facility in downtown Belgrade with a colour grading theatre, and Dolby 7.1. Projects shooting on location in Serbia, such as sequel to Don’t Breath have already benefitted from the extension of services offered on location and in post-production.

The premium postproduction facility in Belgrade has opened its doors to high end content at the end of 2020 and is in the final assessment phase of getting the Motion Picture Association’s Trusted Partner Network certificate. Already fully booked with incoming international projects as well as the booming Serbian film and TV market, the facility has the intention of becoming a reference postproduction facility in Southeast Europe.

The facility leads projects from initial idea to final delivery and their services extend beyond the studio lot in providing technical support for a variety of external processes including DIT. The main feature of the 500 square foot facility is the colour grading theatre powered by BaseLight with 4K Sony laser projector, Sony reference monitor, Stewart reference screen and Dolby 7.1.  Another smaller grading suite is equally powered by FilmLight and Sony connected to editing rooms, comfortable office space and a VFX office. FilmLight Flux storage and rendering capacities are supported through Cisco network, up to 100GB/s, enabling high security and quick transfer of data.

“Our hub represents a fusion of talent, experience and passion…We have one goal: to offer our clients world class post-production environment. Currently we are working on two major international projects – one being TV series and other a feature film, says Nemanja Stanojević, coordinator of 247HUB.”

The hub will also develop the talent pool and work with young artists in achieving uncompromising technical results. A partnership with Filmlight and their experts will guide a training programme for artists in colour grading to permanently empower Serbian production capabilities.

Serbia's 25-30% cash rebate applies to post-production as well as physical production on features, TV series, documentaries and animation projects. A 20% cash rebate applies to commercial production, and the higher 30% is for feature films with a minimum EUR5 million Serbian spend.