photo: Inforg-M&M Film
BUDAPEST: The year 2020 started as a good one. The National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI) was established in January 2020 as the successor of the Hungarian National Film Fund, and Barnabás Tóth s historical drama Those Who Remained / Akik maradtak, produced by Inforg-M&M Film, got on the short list in the Academy Awards International Feature Film category. The film didn t make it into the nominations list and with the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic the Hungarian film industry faced serious challenges.
Luckily, there was also good news. Kornel Mundruczó s first English language film Pieces of a Woman, produced by BRON Studios (Canada) in coproduction witth Little Lamb (Canada) and Proton Cinema (Hungary), was invited into the main competition of the Venice Film Festival, and it is among the Academy Awards 2021 contenders for a nomination in various categories.
Marlborough’s WaterSep BioSeparations has been purchased for $27 million by France-based Sartorius Stedim Biotech.
WaterSep is a private company in Marlborough, with around 15 employees manufacturing and marketing hollow-fiber membrane devices and pre-sterilized assemblies for upstream and downstream biopharmaceutical applications, according to a release by Santorius. The purchase agreement includes a price of $27 million, plus an earn-out component of up to $9 million, depending on the achievement of defined sales revenue growth by 2023. WaterSep is excited to join the Sartorius Stedim Biotech team as they continue to lead the transformation of bioprocessing to single use, Attila Herczeg, CEO and president of WaterSep BioSeparations, said in the release.