Showcasing the outstanding feature film and episodic visual effects work crafted by our team of artists, creatives, technologists, and support team this new showreel features work from Black Mirror 7, Say Nothing, Argylle, The Crow, Supersisters, Operation Fortune, Open Your Eyes, Beautiful Beings, Wrath of Man, A Discovery of Witches, A Girl And An Astronaut, Pinocchio and Aladdin to name a few.

Editor: Šimon Hájek

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Czech Republic / Germany

Director: Tomas Masin
Producer: Katerina Cerna, Pavel Strnad
DoP: Tomas Frkal
Editor: Filip Malasek

VFX (115 VFX Shots)

Adaptation of the award-winning novel “The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch” by Katerina Tuckova. The post-WWII story of the forced expulsion of Germans from Brno, Czechoslovakia.

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Great Britain

Director: Tom Harper
DoP: George Steel, Ben Wilson
Editor: Mark Eckersley
VFX Producer: Lisa Renney
VFX Supervisor: Theo Demiris

 VFX (186 VFX Shots)

During World War II, Tommy Shelby returns to a bombed Birmingham and becomes involved in secret wartime missions based on true events, facing new threats as he reckons with his past and rising national stakes.

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Studio: NETFLIX

Creator: Charlie Brooker

Featuring stand-alone dramas — sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia — “Black Mirror” is a contemporary reworking of “The Twilight Zone” with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world.

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Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland

Director: Gregor Valentovic
Producer: Rudolf Biermann, Katarina Tomkova
DoP: Adam Suzin
Editor: Roman Keleman

DI, Color Grading, VFX (140 VFX Shots)

Olympic champion Ondrej Nepela returns home to Czechoslovakia after his 1972 victory in Sapporo, only to confront the suffocating grip of the socialist regime.

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Great Britain

Director: Tom Harper
DoP: George Steel, Ben Wilson
Editor: Mark Eckersley

 VFX

During World War II, Tommy Shelby returns to a bombed Birmingham and becomes involved in secret wartime missions based on true events, facing new threats as he reckons with his past and rising national stakes.

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United States / Ireland

Studio: FX
Showrunner: Joshua Zetumer

Say Nothing for FX features 210 VFX shots, including complex historical set extensions, a CG block of flats, numerous CG elements, and FX explosions. It was a fantastic collaboration with VFX Supervisor Giles Harding and Showrunner Joshua Zetumer, successfully completed in 2024.

Spanning four tumultuous decades during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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United States

Production: Lionsgate
Director: Rupert Sanders
DoP: Steve Annis

170 VFX shots of mainly projected DMP extensions and CG water

Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

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Poland

Producer: Olga Cerkaska, Bartosz Cerkaski / LULU Production
Director: Bartosz Prokopowicz
DoP: Jeremi Prokopowicz

Distributor: Netflix

350 VFX Shots feature also 2 minutes CG jet and environment combat sequence, with FX, and CG/DMP extensions

An astronaut’s return after a 30-year disappearance rekindles a lost love and sparks interest from a corporation determined to learn why he hasn’t aged.

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Poland

Studio: NETFLIX

Producer: Agnieszka Kurzydlo
Director: Klara Kochańska-Bajon, Jagoda Szelc
DoP: Maciej Sobieraj
Edit: Bartłomiej Piasek, Piotr Wójcik, Anna Garncarczyk

Distributor: Netflix

VFX

An MMA fighter balances her career and raising her son. After an incident, she transfers him to an elite school, unaware its parents are from different worlds. She accepts the situation but faces challenges that awaken motherly instincts.

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