Graduated from University of London with a BSc Economics. His
dissertation is on international money laundering and tax evasion.
He graduated from UCLA's Producers Program.
He is mentored by Roger Birnbaum of Spyglass Entertainment.
His nickname, Snappy, stuck on him after his UCLA teacher, Arnold Rifkin called out Balazs' cab driver hat in their first class together.
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.