Trivia

He graduated from UCLA's Producers Program.

He is mentored by Roger Birnbaum of Spyglass Entertainment.

He studied film producing under Academy Award-winning Cathy Schulman and Barbara Boyle, Peter Guber and David Hoberman among others and received an MFA degree in Producing from UCLA.

At age 17, he interned in the U.S. House of Representatives where he wrote speeches for Congressman Tom Lantos. He later wrote a comic autobiography about his experiences there, which was published in Hungary. This scored him a writer position on a retro comedy series.

Balazs grew up in an entertainment family: his mother is a theatre producer, his father is a television personality.

Balazs received a BSc Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London and during his studies, completed the Management Training Program at Phillip Morris Romania in the Corporate Communications Department. While at undergrad, he worked as a bus boy, bartender, DJ, stage manager, intelligence analyst and as a bank clerk.

Graduated from University of London with a BSc Economics. His dissertation is on international money laundering and tax evasion.

His nickname, Snappy, stuck on him after his UCLA teacher, Arnold Rifkin called out Balazs' cab driver hat in their first class together.