Business is booming for Northland film industry

While many movies are filmed in places like Hollywood, more have been filmed in the Northland lately. 'The Upper Midwest Film Office has been aroun...

November 5, 2022
5:08 AM

While many movies are filmed in places like Hollywood, more have been filmed in the Northland lately. 'The Upper Midwest Film Office has been around since December of 2020,' said Executive Director Shari Marshik. 'The Upper Minnesota Film Office was actually started in 1985. So the industry has been here since the 95, but we're really the last two years it's taken off.'A major reason for the increased film production in the area is financial motivation. 'The reason why we have so many projects coming now is simply because of the incentives.

Sabrina Ullman WDIO