CREATIVE AND ENTERTAINMENT

Copenhagen and the Øresund Region repute a historical tradition as centre for the successful production of moving images. Directors like Lars von Trier, Bille August and Ingmar Bergman have put the region on the cinematic world map over the years.

With the continued growth of the national film industries, the industries of today boast a work force consisting of over 70 highly skilled innovative production companies that can compete with European film hubs like Berlin or London.

At the same time an enclave of computer game developers in Copenhagen has been coming together over the last ten years, now representing a significant upcoming entertainment branch. See From film to entertainment industry.

Strongholds
On a national level, the film industry can boast itself of one if the highest market shares (approx. 30 %).

The Danish producers have a record for being masters at production value and the Danish production companies are renowned for possessing high end technology and for thinking innovatively within their field.

Business opportunities
Shooting in the region you can benefit from working with a sophisticated, individual and knowledgeable film sector, which continues to grow in skills and strengths. On top of this, there is a well-developed industry infrastructure, English as a working language and high production value.

The Øresund Region is in a favourable competitive situation thanks to a high level of creative, professional and technical competencies and a well functioning technical and physical infrastructure.

The Øresund Region holds a number of general and specific strengths with regards to the film industry. These can be summarised in the following headlines:

• A highly skilled and flexible labour force with good language competencies
• A region with state-of-the-art competencies in all areas of post-production and among the world leaders in tele- and datacine, motion capture technology, sound equipment and technology, and mastering
• Unique natural and architectural locations within a limited geographical area
• An film industry with the ability to produce on a reliable and cost-efficient basis
• A general price/quality-ratio competitive with other major European clusters and Hollywood
• Well-educated and renowned directors
• Well functioning infrastructure and a very good ITC infrastructure making online editing possible

See The Øresund Film Commission.