The new production centre will replace Film Capital Stockholm and offer co-production opportunities for producers wishing to film in Sweden’s capital region.

Film Stockholm, the new limited company set up by Stockholm Region and the City of Stockholm, will open for business in February 2021.

In order to bolster productions in the capital region, the founding partners have earmarked a minimum of SEK 15m (€1.5m) to invest in films (short, feature length, documentaries), TV dramas as well as new formats, thereby doubling the funding available until now. More partners and financiers are set to join.

“We are happy about this close collaboration between the Stockholm Region and the City of Stockholm in the film area,” said Eva Bergquist, Head of Administration at Region Stockholm's Cultural Administration. “Our joint investment in Film Stockholm will provide better conditions for producing high-quality film and TV drama that can also reach a large audience.”

Cecilia Elving, chairperson at Stockholm Region’s Cultural Committee adds: “The Stockholm region has a fantastic potential for filming and I am convinced that this will now increase, not least through our formalised collaboration with the City of Stockholm. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a severe blow to all the actors that operate in the moving image. The issue of film incentives would further increase our attractiveness as a filming country, and I hope we will be able to convince the government of that,” she said.

Besides the co-financing of films & TV dramas, Film Stockholm’s main objectives will be to make the Stockholm area an attractive place for shooting, and to contribute to talent and industry development. Film Stockholm will therefore replace the regional film fund Film Capital Stockholm - set up in 2007- which will be wound up, while film commissioner Daniel Chilla will continue to be the contact person and production facilitator under Stockholm’s new set up.

Similarly, Region Stockholm’s centre for talent development and film support ‘Filmbase’ will also integrate Stockholm’s new production centre. Film Stockholm will be run by a Board of Directors, headed by chairwoman Kristina Rennerstedt, former director of the Swedish National Council for Culture and former Chair of the Royal Opera.

More information about the application process will be published closer to the February launch.

Productions co-financed by Film Capital Stockholm, also supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond include the series Before We Die, Blinded, the films Euphoria, About Endlessness and Psychosis in Stockholm.