Victor Studio was one of the best known sfx studios in the field. Working both in advertising and in cinema, they quickly became renowned for their skills and demonstrated high-level technical and creative qualities. Recently, the company's assets were sold. Victor Studio became Benuts. The reference shareholders are now French, but the entity and the team working there remain entirely Belgian with two operational root points: Brussels and Mons. We met with Stéphane Rigotti, now manager at Benuts.

What is currently Victor Studio's status?

A French conglomerate has indeed bought Victor Studio's assets under juridical control: they set up a new limited company in Belgium (Wizz District), their commercial name is Benuts.

The entire team has been brought back, which is very important for us.

Which are the economic bodies behind the new company?

The major holders of the capital are Wizz and Digital District, two Parisian reference studios in the sfx and post-production domains.

Benuts will evolve based on sharing experience and skills in order to empower our team and develop a more efficient and even more qualitative internal organisation.

Today, what is Benuts's strategy?

We want to reinforce our positioning in the marketing field and consolidate our cinema positioning, among other things for film and 3D stereo. Incidentally, we worked on AMPHIBIOUS (by Brian Yuzna) last year, the winner of the Best Feature Film award at the 3D Stereo MEDIA festival, as well as on an animation feature film and on 3D MAGIC CRYSTAL which should be released this year.

So well under way, we do not plan on quitting.

Practically, we started to improve our infrastructure so it would meet the ever evolving market's demands, as well as the workflow which can be adapted in function of every production.

The team itself is ready to take on all creative challenges and meet the customers' expectations.

Finally, we will of course continue to serve the Belgian and French markets, but we aim to extend our customer list to the German and Dutch markets.

Where will the offices be set up?

We have two operational headquarters: one in Brussels (Evere) and the other one is currently being furnished in Mons, Wallonia, in the heart of the Microsoft Center.

The company's corporate headquarters are situated in Wallonia (Namur).

We have a flexible infrastructure in function of the projects and a network of carefully selected international talents so we are ready to make our customers even happier and more satisfied.

Today, we start over on solid ground, with new creative challenges and our motivation boosted to 200%!

For more information please visit www.benuts.be