Czech Ambassador About “Avala Film” Project – Plan Includes Going Back to Top of Film Industry and 3,000 Apartments

The ambassador of the Czech Republic, Tomas Kuchta, stated for Real Estate Magazine that the Czech company SEBRE plans the reconstruction of the “Avala Film” complex and to bring it back among the main film production centers in Europe, as well as that the project had been given the status of a “Project of Extraordinary Significance for the Republic of Serbia”. Along with the film studio, as he said, the plan is to build around 3,000 apartments for 8,000 people.

– The Czech investor, the company SEBRE, is coming with the plan to bring back the film studio among the main centers of film production in Europe, that is, where Avala Film belonged until the 1990s. SEBRE has planned out the modernization and the transfer of knowledge from active European film studios, such as the film studio Barrandov in Prague. The aim is to produce new movies and digitize old ones – Kuchta said in the interview.

As he explained, the entire complex covers over 40,000 square meters, and obsolete and non-functional facilities are planned to be fully modernized.

– The project got the status of a “Project of Extraordinary Significance for the Republic of Serbia” in December 2019 – pointed out the Czech ambassador.

He added that the investment in film studios was related to the project of a residential settlement, with special focus on the high quality of environmental protection.

– The author of the residential zone is the prominent Czech architect Stanislav Fiala, a recipient of a range of awards in the Czech Republic, among which are architect of the year, building of the year etc. The residential project envisages the construction of around 3,000 apartments for 8,000 people, including a school, a kindergarten and a health center – Kuchta said.

Let us remind that citizen activists protested on several occasions during the early public review of the urban plan for the “Avala Film” space, claiming that the construction of a residential complex in that area entailed the cutting of the forest in Kosutnjak.

The owner of “Avala Film” responded at the time that their construction plan was not in the area of Park Kosutnjak, which is in public use, but in “a neglected area”, on the other side of Kneza Viseslava Street, which currently features film studios.

Ambasada Češke Republike u Beogradu

SEBRE d.o.o. Beograd

Avala Studios d.o.o. Beograd

SEBRE

Avala film

Tomaš Kuchta

detailed regulation plan Košutnjak

reconstruction of Avala film complex

residential project

Stanislav Fiala