Magic Lab

Magic Lab MAGIC LAB is a picture post-production and VFX studio with offices in Prague, Bratislava and Warsaw. Our involvement often begins during the script phase.

Magiclab is a Prague based post-production and VFX Studio with permanent staff of 60 employees and offices in both Slovakia and Poland. During the past 10 years we have been rapidly growing and have gained reputation for high quality creative visual effects and are known as a highly artistic, and technically reliable full circuit post-production studio in Central Europe. To produce extraordinary w

ork – to add magic to everything we do - we have inter-national team with diverse backgrounds who’s talent we nourish. We listen to filmmaker’s creative goals as well as producer’s budgeting needs and power their ambitions with our technology. Our pipeline is based on ShotGrid and we are using tools like Nuke, Houdini, Maya, Afinity, Unreal and brings breathtaking scenes and characters to life for film and TV. We also run two screening suites with DCI Standard pro-jectors, and we are HDR Dolby certified facility. We endeavor to assist production in each step of the process, from pre-production to post-production. We believe that successful visual effects arise out of planning. We offer the Czech incentives scheme administrated by the Czech Film Fund, which offers filmmakers cash rebates on qualifying Czech and international spend. For more information please be in touch with Michal Krecek [email protected] / Andrea Shaffer [email protected]

Top 20 of Magiclab’s credits during the past 5 years


2022 Operation Fortune (MIRAMAX)
2022 Beautiful Beings (Berlinale Panorama)
2022 Somewhere Over the Chemtrails (Berlinale Panorama)
2021 Wrath of Man (MIRAMAX)
2021 Open your eyes (NETFLIX)
2021 Leave No Traces (Venice Film Festival Biennale Best Film Nominee)
2021 Dear Ones (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Film Nominee)
2020 Messiah (NETFLIX)
2020 Freud (NETFLIX)
2020 Charlatan (A. Holland, Academy Awards nominee foreign film)
2020 Scumbag (No. 1 box office Slovakia)
2020 Je Suis Karl (Berlinale Special Gala)
2019 The Gentlemen (MIRAMAX)
2019 Aladdin (DISNEY)
2019 Pinocchio (Oscar, Bafta nominee)
2019 Daughter (Academy Awards short animated film nominated, Sundance etc.)
2019 A Discovery of the Witches (SKY UK)
2018 Fugue (Semaine de la Critique, Cannes)
2017 A Man of Integrity (Winner Un Certain Regard, Cannes)
2017 Das Verschwinden (ARD top TV series)

26/11/2025

🎉 Camerimage Festival 2025’s GOLDEN FROG in the Cinematographers’ Debuts Competition went to ADAM SUZIN for FATHER, directed by Tereza Nvotová! 🥳

These annual cinematography awards are among the most prestigious in the world, and we’re extremely happy for Adam and proud of our color grader Braňo Daniš, who worked with him here in Prague. Bravo to the entire team, bravo!

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🎬 We’re proud to have worked on Nepela - a powerful biopic about Olympic figure-skating legend Ondrej Nepela, set agains...
31/10/2025

🎬 We’re proud to have worked on Nepela - a powerful biopic about Olympic figure-skating legend Ondrej Nepela, set against the backdrop of communist Czechoslovakia. 🇸🇰🇨🇿⛸️

Produced by Punkchart Films (SK) and In Film (CZ), the film entered domestic cinemas on Thursday. Our VFX team is thrilled to have helped bring Nepela’s story and era to life! ✨

VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer
VFX Supervisor: František Štěpánek
Compositing Supervisor: Lukáš Abrahám
DMP Supervisor: Jan Kůrka
CG Supervisor: Břetislav Kašpar
VFX Production Manager: Inna Levian
DI Supervisor: Jiří Novák
DI Production Manager: Dagmar Petrů

🎆 Warsaw Film Festival is in full swing, and we’re thrilled to see several films we’ve worked on screening there!The fes...
15/10/2025

🎆 Warsaw Film Festival is in full swing, and we’re thrilled to see several films we’ve worked on screening there!

The festival hosts the international premiere of ANORGASMIA by Jon Einarsson Gustafsson in the International Competition, the world premiere of HUNGER STRIKE BREAKFAST (Badautojų namelis ) by Karolis Kaupinis in the 1–2 Competition, and the Polish premiere of FATHER by Tereza Nvotová in the International Competition! ✨

Dziękujemy and congratulations to all the filmmakers! 👏

🇮🇸 Artio Films
🇨🇦 Great Canadian Film Factory
🇨🇿 BFILM.cz

🇱🇹 M-Films
🇨🇿 Background Films
🇱🇻 TASSE FILM

🇸🇰 DANAE Production
🇨🇿 moloko film
🇵🇱 Lava Films

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that we’ve counted - not two, not five, but EIGHT Magic Lab titles - in the program of Finále ...
29/09/2025

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that we’ve counted - not two, not five, but EIGHT Magic Lab titles - in the program of Finále Plzeň, the biggest showcase of Czech national cinema!

🎱🦄🔬🏁🍺♥️

Our period set extensions helped bring to life the two-part TV drama GERTA SCHNIRCH, based on the best-selling novel by ...
24/09/2025

Our period set extensions helped bring to life the two-part TV drama GERTA SCHNIRCH, based on the best-selling novel by Kateřina Tučková. Directed by Tomáš Mašín and produced by Negativ and Česká televize, in collaboration with ARTE and HBO - what an incredible journey!

The first episode premiered last night on the big screen at Serial Killer festival in Brno.

Congratulations to all our amazing partners!! 🎉✨

✨ Look at this incredible Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity VFX dream team at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awar...
08/09/2025

✨ Look at this incredible Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity VFX dream team at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles! ✨

Team credits:
• VFX Supervisor – James MacLachlan
• VFX Producer – Josie Henwood
• VFX Production Manager – Kübra Tanyel
• Senior DFX Supervisor (Union VFX) – David Schneider
• VFX Producer (Union VFX) – Tallulah Baker
• 2D Supervisor (Union VFX) – Jane Paton
• VFX Supervisor (Stargate Studios) – Jonathan Caruana
• VFX Supervisor (Magic Lab) – 🌟 Filip Latal 🌟
• VFX Supervisor (Jellyfish Pictures) – Jamie Wood

👏 Huge congratulations to this amazing crew — and a special shout-out to Filip! 🚀🔥

RecepčníDo našeho post-produkčního a VFX studia MAGIC LAB hledáme ambiciózního a zodpovědného kolegyni/gu, který se přid...
02/09/2025

Recepční

Do našeho post-produkčního a VFX studia MAGIC LAB hledáme ambiciózního a zodpovědného kolegyni/gu, který se přidá k našemu týmu jako Junior Recepční.
Pokud jste komunikativní, máte rádi práci s lidmi a máte zájem rozvíjet své dovednosti, tato pozice je pro vás ideální.
Práce je vhodná pro studenty.

Pokud vás inzerát zaujal, neváhejte se připojit k našemu studiu MAGIC LAB a zašlete své CV na jobs@magiclab

https://www.magiclab.film/jobs/recepce/

✨ Moments after the world premiere and right before the celebration began! ✨✨FATHER by Tereza Nvotová at La Biennale di ...
28/08/2025

✨ Moments after the world premiere and right before the celebration began! ✨✨

FATHER by Tereza Nvotová at La Biennale di Venezia

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Magic Lab s.r.o. is a creative postproduction, animation and VFX studio founded in 2009 and based in the center of the Prague, Czech Republic. The word ”creative” in the headline means that our main purpose is integration in the whole process of production of any visual creation. Our philosophy is to be a part of the process from the very beginning, when first ideas are coming. In such case we can influence the process in the best way to achieve perfect results in postproduction, both creatively and economically. Good connection between the director and our experienced visual effects supervisor is the basis of the creative process, which can strongly be influenced by him. He can give good recommendations to the director on how to best achieve his visions. On the other hand there is also need to have a perfect relation between our visual effects producer and the head of the project to also keep the process on a realistic economical level. As we are much focused on the artistic side of the projects we cooperate with the best artists and for every project we take special care for choosing the right artist and team for specific tasks. We offer high level VFX compositing, which allows us to do a very wide range of visual effects tasks. From simple green screens, wire removal and retouching to 3D compositions, 3D tracking, crowd multiplications and matte painting. We also offer 3D animation and classical 2D animation, which can support the making of visual effects or can be even used individually (cartoons, commercials, music videos etc.). We are proud that we can also tightly cooperate with the studio of Ondřej Mašek, which is perfectly suited for movies set dress and miniatures. This connection allows us to offer more classical visual effects if it is necessary. Apart from the VFX part of our studio, we offer many services which are more on the classical post-production side. Editing and online suites perfectly suited for a wide range of projects ranging from commercials to feature movies. Graphics design artists for smaller projects like feature movie posters, booklet design, web design or corporate design. And of course our production, which keeps all of the services mentioned above running smoothly through whole process of production. In the end our studio has all the necessary support for even the most demanding clients. One of our credos is to support the art - all of the services above are offered for movies and commercials while we also support independent projects - from short movies and musical videos to documentaries and all kinds of visual creation.