About selling a city that suddenly ends up in the center of world events, about its journey there, about turning a declining society into an expansive region.
And about political populism in the middle of all that.
This is roughly what the summary of the planned documentary sounds like.
- It is very interesting to hear about Skellefteå's conscious strategy to market itself and put it in a larger perspective, thinks Mattias Löw, who today first meets municipal manager Kristina Sundin Jonsson for a conversation.
Several recordings
Tonight, he also meets the former business manager Bengt Ivansson, who was a driving force in marketing the municipality as a good place to establish a battery factory.
At the beginning of the autumn, there will also be more recordings here.
- But some will also be recorded in the US, he says without wanting to reveal how far they have come in the hunt to find the owner of the red scarf.
Mattias Löw talks about the detective work that the recording of "The Red Scarf" entailed in the clip above.