Writer · Director · Producer

BalazsJuszt

Character-led stories about history, espionage and moral compromise. Nobody gets out entirely clean.

Selected work
Black-and-white portrait of Balazs Juszt
Portrait

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Selected work

Released work and projects announced publicly.

Released

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Feature film · Writer / Director

The Man Who Was Thursday

A dark metaphysical thriller inspired by G. K. Chesterton, starring François Arnaud, Ana Ularu, Jordi Mollà and Mark Ivanir.

World premiere
Edinburgh International Film Festival

Short film · Director

The Moral of Staying Alive

A painter’s inner world collides with a harsher reality in a story about dignity and empathy.

Short films · Writer / Director

The romantic shorts

The Kiss Goodnight, Split Perfect, What If…? and I Love You, Too.

Branded series · Writer

Nokia

A global branded-content series for Nokia’s AI-powered network services.

Publicly announced

Series · Creator / Writer / Showrunner

Codeword: Rubicon

A period spy thriller about the covert intelligence operation hidden inside a Swiss encryption company.

Feature · Writer

Rogue Male

The true story of the British agent Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, whose exploits helped create the mythology of James Bond —and this bastard actually existed.

Feature · Writer

The Ghost of Tomorrow

An original feature written for 3six9 Studios.

Feature · Producer

Sarajevo

The final twenty-four hours before the encounter that changed the course of the twentieth century.

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Story first.
The rest is paperwork.

Balazs Juszt is a Hungarian writer, director and producer whose work moves between intimate character drama and international thrillers.

After beginning as a child actor and becoming the head writer of a television comedy at eighteen, he earned a BSc in Economics from Royal Holloway and an MFA in Producing from UCLA. His shorts travelled the festival circuit from Bogotá to Cannes; his debut feature premiered at Edinburgh and Austin.

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Press

Selected coverage and conversations.

Cast portraits accompanying Deadline’s coverage of the 3six9 Studios slate

Deadline

3six9 Studios unveils its international feature slate
A screening of The Moral of Staying Alive

Budapest Reporter

The Moral of Staying Alive premieres at an art-driven charity event
Balazs Juszt photographed for Budapest Reporter

Budapest Reporter

Balazs Juszt signs with Hollywood talent agency Gersh
Historical illustration accompanying coverage of Sarajevo

Budapest Reporter

Historical drama Sarajevo to unveil the final hours before a world-altering encounter
All press

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Words

If one person is delusional, it’s a psychiatric case. If a lot of people are, it’s religion.

The Man Who Was Thursday

All systems built on trust can be hacked. Paradoxically, trust is the one thing I cannot hack.

Comfort Zone

— You’ve changed. I was hoping you wouldn’t.— And you didn’t change. I was hoping you would.— How wrong we both were…

What If…?

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Let’s make
something worth
remembering.

Representation

Represented by Roy Ashton at Gersh

Production

Spanish Wax Entertainment

Biography

Balazs Juszt

After growing up as a child actor, Balazs began working on plays at the American International School of Budapest and directed his first music video at seventeen. That same summer, he translated the Harper Book of Quotations into Hungarian and interned in the U.S. House of Representatives, writing speeches for Congressman Tom Lantos.

His comic autobiography about the experience led to a head-writer position on a comedy series at eighteen. He later earned a BSc in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MFA in Producing from UCLA.

Balazs’s romantic shorts The Kiss Goodnight, Split Perfect and What If…? travelled the festival circuit from Bogotá to Cannes. He continued the cycle with I Love You, Too. His debut feature, The Man Who Was Thursday, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, followed by its North American premiere at the Austin Film Festival.

He has headed writers’ rooms internationally, directed dozens of prime-time television episodes and created original formats, with a particular focus on espionage and character-led thrillers. He co-founded Spanish Wax Entertainment to develop and produce original content.

Balazs is a member of the Hungarian Film Academy and the Association of Hungarian Directors. He divides his time between Budapest, the Hungarian countryside and Tel Aviv.