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our Vision:

Welcome to Nefzer Special Effects

With over 50 years of experience in the moviemaking business, our purpose and vision is to transform imagination into reality. To create realistic physical special effects, from the pages of a script to the action on screen, within the frame and story. We pride ourselves in delivering physical on camera effects to the complete satisfaction of both Directors and Producers, within budget, every time.

Safety, efficiency and reliability are major factors on how we work at Nefzer Special Effects. We have a full administration team standing by in our head office in Babelsberg Studios, organized to quickly and efficiently setup teams in our custom built workshops and engineering facilities. Our mobile workshops are always ready to roll out to the next destination, wherever it is needed.

From Europe to Asia, Africa to India, Russia to the UK, we have traveled the world. Wherever we go we fully assimilate into our surroundings, using local resources, hiring local crew and creating infrastructure when needed to efficiently setup production and get started creating special effects onscreen.

Our Passion drives us to work efficiently, think creatively and create whatever is needed for on camera effects. We can design, engineer and fabricate to suit the needs of even the most demanding film makers. From concept to design, implementation to completion, we always have the final movie in our minds.

About Nefzer SFX

First founded as an Armoury in the 1960s by Karl Nefzer, then as Special Effects by his son Uli Nefzer in the early 1980s. Gerd Nefzer joined the company in the 1990s and leads a secondary SFX team within the company.

Over the many years of working in the movie industry we at Nefzer Special Effects stay ahead of advancements in the technical and engineering world. We are consistently updating our methods, equipment and crew training to increase our abilities to deliver the most cost effective and realistic special effects. Nefzer have created a world class MotionBase system utilizing state of the art industrial technology, combined with a real understanding of the needs of the modern movie business. We also ensure seamless collaboration with Visual Effects companies to capture those impossible shots and VFX elements.

We have two independent teams of special effects technicians supervised by Uli Nefzer and Gerd Nefzer. We can cater for two movies simultaneously giving you the full benefits of over 50 years of experience in making movies. We have an extensive selection of some of the best specialist technicians from around the world and assemble our teams according to the requirements of each movie. We never take on work that we are incapable of undertaking. All of our Technicians and Artists work with passion as part of the wider filmmaking team.