Visual Effects and Post Production House

A Good Day to Die Hard

UPP thanks to the producers of the movie for a very nice chance to be a part of the postproduction team. We wish them a big success!

Burning Bush

Agniezska Holland presented in Prague her new TV miniseries. UPP would like to thank her and the whole HBO team for a fantastic collaboration on this exceptional project.

Ken Follett’s worldwide bestseller, World Without End, comes to life as a monumental eight-hour event series. UPP is very proud to deliver all VFX.

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This four-hour Event miniseries is based on the multi-million selling novel by Kate Mosse. LABYRINTH is a dynamic contemporary action adventure set against the epic and historic landscape of southwest France. The novel, published in 2006, continues to be an international bestseller and UPP is very proud to have a chance to deliver the complex postproduction services for this nice project.

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Further beautiful commercials for a great director Mr. Ivan Zacharias were done in UPP. We completed also the setup of stereoscopic workflow - 3D and Matte Painiting, on-line, grading while finalizing it on UPP big cinema screen. See the details in the Commercials Galery section!

UPP is very proud to have had the chance to work with George Lucas for the first time. We delivered almost 500 shots for his Red Tails movie. We thank Rick McCallum and ILM team for a great collaboration and a lot of new experiences.

TWIXT by Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola has finished his new movie TWIXT. UPP very much appreciats the opportunity to have worked on it. The whole team is looking forward for the film´s Czech premiere.

Alois Nebel in Venice

The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border....

UPP, as a coproducer of the movie was very happy to hear about its great acceptance by the Venice festival audience.

Digitally restored copy of Marketa Lazarova

On 2 July 2011, the 46th Karlovy Vary IFF held the world premiere of the digitally restored copy of the most important Czech film in the country’s history – František Vláčil’s drama Marketa Lazarová.
The Ministry of Culture and the ČEZ Foundation funded the digital restoration of this movie and the technology behind the process was secured by Universal Production Partners.

EMMY 2011 nomination

UPP has been honored by The Academy of TV Arts and Science with Emmy nominations for Outstanding VFX for The Pillars of the Earth TV miniseries

Job opportunities

UPP are regularly looking for talented people. If you feel you have the skills to work at the highest level in movie postproduction please get in contact.

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The premiere of "Muži v naději"

UPP, the supplier of picture postproduction wish this new Czech movie great success!

Václav Havel – Leaving

We are very proud that Vaclav Havel has chosen UPP in his first movie as a director. UPP delivered the entire picture postproduction requirements. We look forward to premiere at the end of March and wish him every success.

The Czech premiere of TETRO

Czech Republic welcomed the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola´s movie - Tetro. His most personal film yet arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. UPP is very proud to deliver the VFX part of this great storry!

Season of the Witch

UPP is very proud to have delivered VFX requirements for this movie. It was particularly satisfying to see the results of the rope bridge scene filmed on green screen, the fully CGI wolves in the attack scene and a lot of other visual effects.

EMMY Award

In 2003, UPP VFX and Post Production House was awarded the EMMY for VFX in the Childern of the Dune project

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UPP is the winner of the HPA2007 Award

We are delighted to be recognized for the HPA2007 Awards for the category of Outstanding Compositing for the TV miniseries The Company (Night2)

UPP nominated for Emmy award 2006

UPP is delighted to hear of their success in being nominated for an Emmy for their work on

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From The Stories Of Stephen King • The End Of The Whole Mess.

We would like to thank the production team for this opportunity, we were very proud to be associated with the miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

UPP´s third EMMY nomination

We are delighted with our third Emmy nomination for our work on The Company TV Miniseries.

The SONY produced miniseries tells the story of CIA´s involvement in the cold war. We recreated many historical time periods and events with Matte Painting, 2D Compostion and 3D Animation including the Bay of pigs attack.

Baba awarded in Cannes 2009

Bába,

directed by ZuzanKirchnerová – Špidlová was awarded 1st price of Cinefoundation at Cannes Film Festival 2009

UPP is very proud to support this movie with all Digital laboratory services and congratulates Zuzana for achieving this success!

Julius Sevcik awarded for Normal in Shanghai 2009

The first Czech movie awarded on "A" festival in Shanghai. The main director´s price received Julius Sevcik for a Normal movie.

UPP congratulates to Julius Sevcik for his director award! We are very proud to deliver Digital Intermediate for the Normal movie.

First step to an Oscar!

We would like to congratulate the teams of Protektor and Baaria who have been nominated to represent the local film industry at the Oscars 2010.

UPP was very proud to be responsible for all of the picture postproduction for the Protektor movie and part of the VFX work for the Italian project Baaria.

Pouta

UPP is celebrating the success of the Pouta movie, which we co-produced. We were delighted to be recognized in no less than 5 categories at this year´s Czech Lion Awards.