Video Production in Zurich — Your Production Company On Site

Plenty of agencies say they “also” shoot in Zurich. We live here, and that changes how a project runs:

• Kickoff in person: briefing at your office or ours in Kreis 4 — same week, not next month.
• Short-notice shoots: when your CEO's calendar suddenly opens or an event moves, a crew with equipment can be on set within days, sometimes hours.
• No travel line items: our gear lives in Zurich. What you pay for is production, not kilometres.
• Pickups without drama: if a reshoot or an extra interview is needed after review, it's a tram ride, not a road trip.

One producer owns your project from briefing to delivery, and post production happens in the same building the cameras come from.

Eight years of producing in this city means we already know where your film should be shot — and what it takes to shoot there:

• Kreis 5 and Hardbrücke: the industrial backdrops around Im Viadukt, Schiffbau and Prime Tower that give corporate films an editorial look.
• Old Town and Limmatquai: Grossmünster views, guild houses and alleys for brand films that should feel unmistakably Zurich.
• The lakefront: Bürkliplatz, Utoquai and Seefeld with the Alps behind — the classic establishing shot, best in morning light.
• ETH and the university quarter for research, education and innovation stories, including the terrace view over the rooftops.
• The Circle and Zurich Airport, Oerlikon's halls for congresses, product launches and employer-branding shoots.

We know which locations need a filming permit from the city and which don't, how much lead time the authorities expect, and that drone shots near the lake sit inside the airport control zone and need clearance. You brief the film; we handle the paperwork.

Our client list reads like the city itself. We have produced for FIFA, headquartered on the Zürichberg, for UBS and Julius Bär in the banking district, for ON, Zurich's running success story, for Siemens Switzerland, and a multi-film employer-branding series for Stadtspital Zürich. That mix — banking, insurance, tech, sport, healthcare — is Zurich's economy in miniature, and it taught us what local decision-makers need: discretion on set in office towers, approval workflows that survive compliance departments, and films that work in (Swiss) German and English alike.

It also means references you can actually check: ask us for the Zurich case that matches your industry and we will show you the film and connect you with the client.

Interviews relax when people can speak the way they speak at work. We direct and shoot in Swiss German, High German, English and Spanish in-house, and deliver subtitled versions so one Zurich shoot covers your local audience and your international channels.

Zurich projects at Viven range from CHF 4,000 for a focused interview or event video to CHF 80,000 for multi-day brand campaigns — always as a fixed offer, never open-ended billing. You review the first cut about two weeks after the shoot. Viven was founded by the producer of the first Swiss feature film on Netflix, and that filmmaking background shows in how we light, frame and edit corporate work. Tell us what your video needs to achieve, and you will have a concrete concept and quote within days — or drop by Zeughausstrasse 31 and talk it through over a coffee.