Made in Belgium: In La Hulpe, the Benuts company is at the heart of the boom in special effects in cinema
Your new podcast Made in Belgium Highlights successful Belgian companies. In this first issue, the spotlight is on Benuts, a company active in the world of seventh art. Based in La Holpe, employing about 80 people, it follows in the footsteps of the major American studios.
Economic information is often associated with bad news. Podcast Made in Belgium It offers you the opposite perspective by interviewing success stories in black, yellow and red. Belgians who have achieved great success here, in Europe and sometimes around the world.
The fields are as scientific as they are extraordinary. The proof is in this first episode that focuses on Benuts, a company from La Hulpe that specializes in special effects in cinema. She especially collaborated with Guillaume Canet at the end Asterix and Obelix: Middle Kingdom. When this feature film was shown, the director and actor justified his choice to show such a film on the screen: “What made me want to do it was that I saw there was scope for making a film that I had never made before. An adventure film with impossible special effects“.
Benuts counts among its clients big names in the art world: they work with Stromae on the Netflix series… which is proof that we have real expertise in special effects in Belgium.
“Organizer. Social media geek. General communicator. Bacon scholar. Proud pop culture trailblazer.”