Flora Film International

Flora Film International Ltd was established by Tibor Kocsis (producer, director, cinematographer) after his graduation at the Hungarian Film Academy in 1996 he founded the company with the purpose to make creative documentaries and non-fiction series for both the Hungarian and international markets. It was his clear goal from the beginning to create feature length documentaries for the silver screen as well. Flora Film International had a broadcast partner from the start, the European award winner Duna Television which is the first satellite channel in the country. Most of Flora Film International’s films are co-produced with Duna Television and the TV channel premiers these films first.
The biggest success of Flora Film International is a documentary titled New Eldorado premiered in Hungarian cinemas and its ratings were as high as those of American feature length documentaries like Super Size Me. Gold Futures, is the American version of the New Eldorado for the PBS series Wide Angle which was aired prime time in all U.S. and in Canada on the PBS network. A New Eldorado was aired in 9 countries, participated at 32 film festivals and received 19 awards. Tibor Kocsis as a member of IDA, nominated the film for the distinguished feature documentary award and for the Pare Lorentz award. The continuation of the dramatic gold mine story in Rosia Montana, Transylvania, is the biggest project which is in production in Flora Film International, the 300 Tons of Gold, which will be released at end of 2009. This documentary gained already the commitment of several international channels, like the Norwegian NRK, the Finnish YLE, the Polish TVP Kultura or the Greek ERT.
Flora Film International not only produce its films but also serves as its own distributor. Apart from their broadcast in the national TV channels these films are often shown on the Central European HBO-Spectrum channels. National Geographic World Championship was a programme Flora Film International has made in 2005 for the National Geographic Channel and it was broadcast in fifteen European countries. Flora Film International intends to use it’s experience to help Hungarian documentary makers and their films to join the new docu-circulation of the European Union.