Head of Eastern European Regional Operations
Iga Syrewicz
As Head of Eastern European Regional Operations, Production Expert Iga Syrewicz brings over a decade of international experience leading complex shoots and supporting global productions across the region.
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Iga
Production Expert Iga Syrewicz leads Hoodlum’s Eastern European Regional Operations, supporting international productions across one of Europe’s most dynamic filming regions. With more than 12 years of experience across television and film, she brings a rare combination of creative producing expertise, operational control, and on-the-ground execution to every project she supports.
As Head of Hoodlum’s Eastern European Regional Operations, Iga Syrewicz leads production support across one of Europe’s most dynamic filming regions.
Working across the region, Iga has built a reputation for guiding productions through demanding schedules, multiple territories, and complex logistics. Her experience spans reality television, studio formats, travel series, and field-based productions that require sharp decision-making, strong local coordination, and dependable production leadership. As a Production Expert, she understands how to balance creative ambition with the practical realities of filming in fast-moving environments.
Her background also gives Hoodlum a real operational edge. Iga is not just familiar with production from a distance. She has worked in the field, on set, across locations, and alongside international crews, giving her a working understanding of what productions need at every stage. From pre-production planning to final delivery, she helps create smoother workflows, stronger local access, and more efficient execution for productions filming across the region.
Based in Poland and working across multiple markets, Iga supports productions that need both high-level oversight and reliable local knowledge. Her role is to help international teams move confidently through planning, logistics, coordination, and delivery while ensuring Hoodlum’s production support remains efficient, practical, and aligned with international production standards.
Production Expertise
Iga specializes in managing complex television productions, coordinating large international crews, and delivering seamless production support for travel formats, reality series, and multi-country shoots.
Regional Access
Through strong local industry relationships across Eastern Europe, Iga provides productions with trusted crews, unique locations, and efficient access to the region’s filming infrastructure.
Production Experience
Complex Productions. Handled Seamlessly.
Iga has worked across a wide range of major international productions for global broadcasters and streaming platforms, supporting projects that demand precision, adaptability, and deep operational control. Her experience includes large-scale reality formats, studio-based productions, travel-led series, and complex international shoots filmed across Europe and Asia. While her work has taken her to multiple territories, her regional focus remains firmly rooted in Eastern Europe, where her expertise is most valuable to international clients.
As a Production Expert, Iga specialises in managing the moving parts that shape successful productions. That includes production planning, field coordination, crew logistics, scheduling, budgeting, supplier management, location work, and delivery support. These are the areas where strong Production services can make the difference between a shoot that struggles and one that runs cleanly from start to finish.
Her production background also makes her especially effective on demanding formats. Travel shows, survival productions, reality series, and multi-country shoots all require fast problem-solving and confident decision-making under pressure. Iga’s strength lies in translating complex production demands into clear operational workflows, keeping teams aligned while protecting timelines, budgets, and creative priorities. That is what makes her a trusted Production Expert for productions entering Eastern Europe.
Across her career, Iga has contributed to productions for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Canal+, TVN Warner Bros. Discovery, Polsat, and other major broadcasters and platforms. These credits reflect not only range, but also consistency. She has supported productions across reality television, music formats, lifestyle series, documentary programming, and large-scale travel productions that rely on experienced management and dependable local execution.
Her credits include titles such as Love is Blind Poland, Asia Express Romania, Pekin Express Spain, Queen of Survival, RAP Generation, Love Island Poland, and Hotel Paradise. Together, these projects show the breadth of her production background and reinforce her position as a Production Expert capable of supporting global productions with practical, high-level coordination. For Hoodlum, that experience strengthens the company’s Production services across Eastern Europe, especially for clients looking for experienced regional support with international standards.
She has also worked extensively across documentary, lifestyle, and entertainment formats, supporting production planning, budgeting, logistics, crew management, and location coordination. This breadth of experience matters because productions rarely need just one thing. They need someone who understands how all departments connect, how decisions affect the shoot on the ground, and how to keep operations moving without losing momentum.
Major Productions
- Love is Blind Poland – Production Manager (Netflix)
- Asia Express Romania – Season 8 – Cast Producer (Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea)
- Pekin Express Spain – Production Booker & Cast Producer (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
- Queen of Survival – Season 3 – Mission Games Producer (Sri Lanka)
- RAP Generation – Season 1 – Project Manager / Production Manager (Amazon Prime Video)
- Love Island Poland – Seasons 5–7 – Production Manager (Spain)
- Hotel Paradise – Seasons 3–4 – Production Manager (Zanzibar)
She has also worked on a range of documentary, lifestyle, and entertainment formats, supporting production planning, logistics, budgeting, crew management, and location coordination.
Her role: delivering seamless production support: from pre-production planning to on-set coordination.
Expertise Across Eastern Europe
Through her work as an executive producer, project manager, and fixer, Iga has developed strong regional expertise across Poland and the wider Eastern Europe production market. That expertise is one of the strongest assets she brings to Hoodlum. For international clients, filming in Eastern Europe offers real advantages, but only when productions have access to the right local knowledge, trusted relationships, and efficient support on the ground.
Iga’s experience in Eastern Europe covers the core areas that international productions depend on most: production management, location scouting, crew logistics, budgeting, scheduling, and local coordination. She understands the pace of international television and knows how to adapt Production services to match different production scales, formats, and delivery pressures. Whether the need is for pre-production planning, on-set coordination, supplier management, or local access, her role is to make production in Eastern Europe more workable, more efficient, and more dependable.
This regional expertise also supports smoother communication between international teams and local partners. Productions entering a new market often need more than just contacts. They need someone who can interpret local realities, anticipate challenges, and align regional execution with global expectations. That is where a strong Production Expert becomes essential. Iga helps productions navigate Eastern Europe with clarity, confidence, and operational discipline, while keeping Hoodlum’s Production services grounded in what actually works on the ground.
Her operational experience includes:
- Production management for international TV formats
- Location scouting and film service coordination
- International crew logistics and scheduling
- Budget planning and financial reporting
- Studio and on-location production management
- Large-scale reality and travel format productions
Her background working with broadcasters and studios such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Canal+, TVN Warner Bros. Discovery, and Polsat further reinforces her ability to support productions at a high level. She understands the expectations of major clients and knows how to apply that standard to regional delivery across Eastern Europe.
European Productions
Reverse VAT Solutions
Hoodlum’s Eastern European operations are structured to support cross-border production work efficiently, including through the EU reverse charge VAT mechanism for eligible business-to-business transactions. This is particularly valuable for international productions working across multiple European markets.
Under the reverse charge system, when two VAT-registered companies in different EU countries work together, the buyer accounts for the VAT in their own country instead of the seller charging it on the invoice. In practice, this means the supplier can issue an invoice at 0% VAT, provided both companies have valid EU VAT numbers and the transaction qualifies under the relevant cross-border rules.
For international productions, this is not just an accounting detail. It is part of making Production services more efficient across borders. In a region like Eastern Europe, where productions may work across several markets, suppliers, and service partners, the ability to structure billing clearly can remove unnecessary friction from the production process. Combined with Iga’s operational oversight, this strengthens Hoodlum’s ability to deliver smarter, more practical support for eligible EU clients working across the region.
This also adds value at the commercial level. Productions want clarity, speed, and fewer administrative obstacles. Reverse VAT solutions support that goal by simplifying invoicing between eligible companies, improving cash flow, and helping production teams focus on execution instead of avoidable administrative delays. When paired with experienced Production services and strong regional oversight, it becomes part of a more seamless way to work across Eastern Europe.
How it works
For most cross-border B2B services in the EU, VAT is due in the customer’s country. That means:
- the seller issues the invoice without VAT
- the invoice includes both parties’ VAT-EU numbers
- the invoice carries a note such as “Reverse charge” or “VAT to be accounted for by the recipient”
- the buyer then declares the VAT in their own jurisdiction.
The buyer typically reports this as both:
- output VAT
- input VAT, where deductible
Why this matters for production
Film and television production is rarely confined to one country. International shoots often involve production companies, post houses, VFX vendors, local service partners, studios, and broadcasters operating across several EU markets. The reverse charge system helps make that cross-border workflow far more practical.
For productions, the main advantages are:
Better cash flow
Large productions run on tight timelines and budgets. Reverse charge removes the need to pay VAT upfront between eligible EU companies, helping productions avoid carrying large tax amounts during active shoots.
Simpler cross-border billing
Production services are often sourced across multiple EU countries. Reverse charge allows suppliers to invoice without foreign VAT, making cross-border billing faster and cleaner.
Easier international collaboration
International productions move across territories quickly. Reverse charge keeps VAT reporting in the buyer’s country, simplifying contracts and accounting between partners.
Supports incentives and rebates
Many European countries offer film incentives and rebates. Reverse charge ensures VAT treatment does not complicate eligibility or the calculation of those incentives.
Reduced administrative burden
Productions manage hundreds of invoices across prep, shoot, and post. Reverse charge simplifies VAT handling by centralising tax reporting in one jurisdiction.
Why it’s relevant to Hoodlum’s Eastern European Operations
Iga’s role sits at the intersection of production execution and regional commercial practicality. Alongside local production knowledge, crew coordination, and regional access, Hoodlum’s Eastern European setup also supports a transparent EU billing structure, including a reverse VAT mechanism for eligible EU clients. This strengthens our ability to support international productions working across Poland and the wider Eastern European market with greater efficiency and clarity.
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Working with Hoodlum in Eastern Europe
Through Iga’s leadership, Hoodlum delivers Production services in Eastern Europe with a stronger combination of local expertise and international production standards. Her role connects regional execution with broader production strategy, giving clients a trusted point of contact who understands both the creative and practical sides of filmmaking. For productions entering Eastern Europe, that means better preparation, clearer workflows, stronger coordination, and greater confidence from prep through delivery.
As a Production Expert, Iga helps ensure that productions are not simply supported, but properly guided through the realities of filming in the region. That includes local knowledge, access to experienced crews, support with infrastructure and logistics, and the kind of practical decision-making that keeps productions moving. Hoodlum’s Production services are strongest when they combine international expectations with real regional insight, and that is exactly what her role brings to the company’s work in Eastern Europe.
Her experience across major international formats ensures that productions benefit not only from local access, but from proven production judgment. For clients, that means working with a Production Expert who understands how to keep complex projects moving, protect production momentum, and deliver reliable support across multiple stages of the process.