Zoltan Deak

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I’m Zoltan Deak, a producer and project-driven executive with over 20 years of international experience spanning film & TV production, producing, creative, project management, and business development.

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I’m Zoltan Deak, a producer and project-driven executive with over 20 years of international experience spanning film & TV production, producing, creative, project management, and business development. I have a proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder projects from concept to delivery, balancing creative vision with budgets, schedules, contracts, and teams.

I’m the founder of Pillango Productions and have hands-on experience in financing, incentives, and cross-border productions. As a founder-level leader, I’ve led cross-border productions, financing, and incentives (including the Hungarian 30% tax incentive), and I enjoy fostering long-term partnerships, driving growth, and delivering high-quality content from idea to delivery.

  • Joined February 2026

Industry experience

  • Media & Entertainment
  • Professional Services
  • Education

Projects · 4

Seventeen year old Riley and a handful of misfit cadets must fight for survival when a mysterious accident wipes out the last Martian colony. Given a clean slate, what kind of world will the next generation build?

A toy designer visits her grandmother in Hungary during Christmas and helps at a holiday market, where she reconnects with heritage and finds love while crafting toys with a local carpenter.

Feature film produced in Hungary and sold to US distributor.

A marketing concept pilot film for branded content marketing. Imagine Sydney, Australia is the product we are marketing. The brand is completely integrated into the story, therefore people are more engaged as they are not being sold to, they are entertained.

  • Brand Strategist
  • Creative Producer
  • Digital Producer

Project Schoolies is a teen drama that follows a group of school leavers as they celebrate the end of their exams in Surfers Paradise.

It is a branded entertainment project, where the financing came from BONGO199, an online texting service.

It is made up of a 6 part web-series on YouTube.

  • Film Producer

Work experience

CEO - Producer · Pillango ProductionsJan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

Business development - Feature Films - Film Sales - Virtual Studio Project for broadcast weather

Freelance Producer · AV and Film Production CompanySep 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 3 mos

Freelance production work for various projects with several production companies

Founder / Producer, Creative Director, Cinematographer · The Deli Agency Pty Ltd.Jan 2003 – Dec 2016 · 14 yrs

Produced online branded campaigns; Founded and operated a content and production agency serving corporate, media and independent production clients (clients included LinkedIn, AON, Telstra Wholesale)

Education

Advanced Diploma in Screen and Media Multiplatform Producing · Producing Australian Film and Television School2010

Certifications and awards

Advanced Diploma in Screen and Media Multiplatform Producing2010

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