Film production not only creates entertaining, exciting, and profound cultural products. The economic impacts, such as value creation, location promotion, and integration of the creative industries, are also interesting and important aspects.
Central Switzerland is home to professional companies, creative minds, and technicians from all areas of the film industry, meaning that all functions can be covered regionally.
This was recently the case during the filming of The Special Agents in the canton of Schwyz, where Central Swiss expertise came into play at various levels:
The collaboration between the two production companies 89 Productions from Brunnen and Orisono from Lucerne has already proven itself in previous film projects. Whereas previously they had mainly worked on international co-productions and service productions, this time they acted jointly as a service production on behalf of Sleeping Cat Productions from Zurich.
One of the most important roles was played by a young filmmaker from the region:
25-year-old Desmond Hudson from Steinen managed the demanding shoot as production manager. As a young filmmaker and local, he has the necessary knowledge and network and was able to contribute accordingly and gain valuable new experience.