International film productions returned to Hungary – everybody has to do COVID tests

In the ORIGO movie studio, the shooting of the Dune and the Birds of Paradise already continued, even though everybody had to do COVID tests which make all productions more expensive. 

According to hvg, the studio introduced a very strict protocol, and they further strengthened it at the beginning of August. Based on that, only those can enter the facility who obtain two negative tests. There are checkpoints at the entrances where only those can pass whose temperature is below 37.5 degrees Celsius. Moreover, ORIGO, the first in the world, robotised the measuring process. 

Mihály Tóth, the studio’s marketing director, highlighted that thanks to the strict measures,

their film studio is currently one of the safest places in the world

allowing international productions to continue their work. Interestingly, those who are in contact with the actors (stylists, hairdressers, beauticians) are tested daily. 

Government film commissioner Csaba Káel said that they communicated to the foreign productions that movie making did not stop in Hungary. Furthermore, the shooting of the Dune and the Birds of Paradise already continued. Control is made up of three steps in the ORIGO. In the morning, everybody receives a questionnaire about where they were and who they met before, then, they have to pass the checkpoint test and, finally, they receive an armband showing that they passed the test.