Tord Moberg has been working in the film industry as a construction manager, prop maker since 2003. He was in the process of completing the first block of the upcoming TV series Valkyrie when he was approached by the Norwegian production manager of The Snowman, Bear Fj?restad.

- We have worked together on numerous projects and he would like to have me on "The Snowman" as Construction Manager. After thinking on this a bit I accepted the offer, it seemed like a chance to be a part of something special, an opportunity to challenge myself.

It would eventually prove that the challenge was even greater than Moberg had imagined at first.

- My role was quite different from what I usually do for the Norwegian projects. The size and level of ambition of this project alone pushed me to a greater extent, posed me in the administrative leadership role in a department with eventually around 30 employees to and from.

For Moberg it was the most challenging at first the inconsistency between this project's expectations for infrastructure and Norwegian film industry in general lacking such.

- There are simply not enough people engaged in the construction of film sets in Norway, mostly because of the Norwegian studio films over the last decade mainly have been filmed abroad. So we are used to take the advantage of large crews attached to the big studios, but here we were forced to start from scratch and find people.

But talking to our colleagues and using our common network, we've gathered a very good team of designers from film, television and entertainment industry. People who are used to work hard and be creative, the ones who will stay until the job is done. Norwegian film industry currently has very few film-painters and decorators. Thus, the solution was to bring some more specialists from abroad.

- So our Norwegian chief decorator Kathrine Solhoff, in addition to some very talented Norwegian employees, has been joined by four Italian decorators from Rome and one from Sweden.

Speaking of costume industry, it will be fair to say that "The Snowman" provided working places for many Norwegian workers over quite a long time.

- It's a very good environment and cooperation between costume designers in Norway and it has been fantastic to work with so many on the same film. We have had major "statist days" where six of the most active costume designers have worked together. It's been great! We also had the opportunity to have two interns who will be well equipped to make their own independent work for everything they've learned here, says Pedersen.